Overshot
Two friends walk through the heat
out to the drug store
as just a way to say they went somewhere,
and carry home plastic bags
pale as flaking bone.
Reach
Feedback in the speakers
and I cannot chill out
for anything.
The whole crowd of kids
push an old man around
and scream about
how nobody belongs here
anymore.
The Summer Ends Early
Blurred out pictures
of house fires
occupy the plastic frames
in the greeting card shop,
where pins are pushed deep
into cork boards
hanging on walls
with no windows.
Granted
Three rabbits practice running
from nothing at golden hour
between warehouses and train tracks
barely listening.
Heart Enough
I saw a woman drawn
with negative space
on the red bathroom stall
scraped into the metal
with black pen.
Vantage
We cannot see the airplanes,
but we hear them
behind the gray sky
getting as far away
as fast as they
possibly can.
Burnout
Bushes shake along the road
and the silver stars
seep light into this summer night.
My car runs loud and its body
suffers streaks of dark rust,
dark like red clay in the split
hills of Tennessee.
