CHIMNEY SWIFT

Nothing happens suddenly for a few weeks. Once autumn is gone, everything slows, flattens out, intentions are revealed before the drawn-out process of action. Instead of slowing things, it unites them. This is because time has become like fluid being poured from one glass to another, perfectly similar glass. I fall into a habit, begin to remember dreams.

Jason Daniel Schwartz grew up in New Jersey. He has lived in New York, India, and rural Massachusetts, which he left with an MFA, courtesy of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He lived in San Francisco and taught animal science at Holden High School and writing at De Anza College. His stories have been in Black Warrior Review and Crab Orchard Review. He feels great joy when people say, "go easy on yourself."