Apparition Paintings

Tiny human figurines made from sand. If you held these to your ear, you heard soft sweet music

For believing (you were a strange beautiful unearthly creature from a faraway planet)

She fell asleep somewhere outside the world

When I first came here (I thought I’d never get used to the trains; now when it’s quiet I get nervous)

Some of them (to isolate themselves even further, beat their own ears until the tiny bones within were crushed)

Suddenly the world had dropped away