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 […]
Read More GlintWe 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.
Silver stereo feedback scrapes the wooden
hallway walls and we regress back decades
caught up in the tapes you scatter
everywhere while freaking out.
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.
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 […]
Read More One Place Or AnotherMy 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. […]
Read More Anything BrightIt gets me out,that metal sound,I levitate over the sidewalkfor the three blocksI must cross to make itover here. Everyday a smoke cloudforms around the barrelof the forty fiveI empty in the sideof the old school houselong abandonedby the district.We have both been heremany times before. It’s been a long timebut I remember allthe little […]
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