God is Waiting in the World's Yard

A small black cat wakes in the box in which itwas carried to a dump and makes its way home through the drains. The onlychange in the divine realm is that there is no longer anyone or anythingguarding the gates of the dead. - 'Downpayment on a Catastrophe'

The simplest ofplaces that at every moment confronts with fresh ambiguities: 'The world'syard': is it a tree-lined garden where children are playing? or the yard wherea yardarm is erected, the executioner's noose always dangling? or the boneyardwhere heretic and believer lie side by side to whisper their sharedconfidences? 'Carnivorous laughterfilters through the woods.' Isn't it always so?''