Covenant

The Blade Runner soundtrackis on a loop on a cracked open jukeboxin the wreckage of one of those nostalgia diners,pretending its the fiftieswhen the whole world can’t rememberwhat they looked like. Some bored kids from the high schoolput that particular track on thereas a protest against the pastwith a dose of the futureno one there […]

Titanic

Grape vines grow like veinsover the surface of a wooden fencethat’s leaned against by herwrapped in the jacket she stolefrom my bedroombefore I woke up. She didn’t want to talkbut did anyway just to maintainthe good energy of the day.I confessed that I’d been lookingalmost everywhere. She said she didn’t careand all the spinning sunglasseson […]

Trips

No one cares that she is jaywalkingbecause there is no carthat wouldn’t stop for her, on any road,and she knows it like her home townknows the rain. She came and went when she decidedit was time to take a different rideto somewhere new that she had never been,and it it begins again when her hair […]

Platform

A brother and sister message overinfrastructure they didn’t buildbut somehow find a wayto get across the things they neverthrought of saying.They were separated before they fullyknew each other and so the only timethey had was when the world was benton ripping them away.She reminds him of the wallpaperfrom the apartment they once stayed inand how […]

Watcher

That murky moment where the warwas like an ant hill going crazy.The whole neighborhood in circlestalking nervously while no onesaid the name.They knew what he had doneout in that clearing in the woodswhere no one wandered.Where crocodiles sat motionless inin the algae for hours until a cranedid something stupid making noise.The sound of commerce in […]

Charge

Taking battery powered doses of whatno one is supposed to ever see.The other side of the city had gonedark on us these past few weeksand clouds of fog prevent the concernedfrom going over there.People have tried everything from basementham radios to telescopes on offices, butthere was no cutting throughthat wall of spinning cloud. Plastic lawn […]

Eroded

This sheet of granite is a poor wayof describing just how everything is completefrom the beginning. Desolate long days with the same partlycloudy skies so just enough suntouches down to make you jealousof the people with a day. Heavy machinery is left to rustin the snow and the crew will claimthey didn’t know it mattered. […]