Alone with You in the Ether

by Olivie Blake

His apartment is a mess, it has dirty dishes and the washing machine contains a stained shirt and she is everywhere. She is in all of his spaces and all of his thoughts. He contemplates formulas and degrees of rationality and they all turn into her. He thinks about time, which has only recently begun, or at least now feels different. He thinks: The Babylonians were wrong; time is made of her.