Periscope

They stand there all so cool
on that dark platform between
skyscrapers.

Glint

A girl adjusts her backpack at the crosswalk.She talks with her friend about airplanesand cars pass while the airrushes around them. Her ancestor pulled an arrowfrom her shoulder fleeingher burning village for its neighbor,the inferno like a second sunbehind her. The stones crack in the streetwhile radios at different storefrontssing conflicting songs in other languages.Empty […]

Shaded

We engrave our days in silver clouds,
and shatter fountain statues late
at night where no one waits around.
Bike wheels blend one road in with dozens
lost among the cross streets.

Vow

Silver stereo feedback scrapes the wooden
hallway walls and we regress back decades
caught up in the tapes you scatter
everywhere while freaking out.

Splitscreen

In the old days we played classic games
sitting side by side in your dark room
to escape the people outside
shouting through the window blinds.

One Place Or Another

A giant will break off from the mountainwoods and walk down to our little townspeeling water tower pinnaclesto strike fear in us and overcome his thirst. Fresh grave dirt piles play parking lotsto monarch butterflies somehowworking out which flower bedsthey’ve unburdened of their nectar. Sunlight falls through church windowsover the donut table and dark ringleft […]

Anything Bright

My dreams burnlike trash covered in butanebetween so manyPennsylvania brick houses,and I am happier nowwith this shovel and sandthan before when I watched it allfall through the glass. It rains redwhen I think backto the neighborhoodchainlink chilled evenings,when everything was overcast. Now just handlebars rustin the overgrowndried out backyardswe once ran throughescaping from anything bright. […]