Gamble

They placed bets with the spirit of all streetlights in a pool of dark where no one could find them. Its hands were cold like tiles in the Winter and the webbing in between them was transparent just like plastic but with a pattern that resembled something scaled. They hitchhiked out there across several Western […]

Axis

Sometimes I get worried that the edges of my thoughts are getting sharper in a way that is as literal as knives. Which is to say that I have made some poor decisions, but somehow it all adds up to burning light. That one beam of something ancient gave me all my sight. A broken […]

Parting Words

Everyday on T.V. they tell us that the world is at its end, and I think that scared us for a little bit, but lately it’s all that anyone can look forward to. The occasional car crashes on the street outside our apartment are like a compartment in my mind, and I go there sometimes […]

runoff

In a room filled with the runoff from three different concerts, people whispered to who they showed up with that everyone else was clearly completely insane. Guys who drove in from out of town to hear the songs they nodded to in their trucks, were polite to all the punk girls because the way they […]

Best Guess

I never knew you, but I filled in all the gaps with what I hoped for. Both our hands shake just the same when we are putting down our words against the page. Even in that description I am reliant on the impressions of second hand assumptions based in slightly better context than my own. […]

Long Days

We were warned of opportunity cost but it’s a price we were willing to pay. Skipping work for a long drive past the responsible distance that culminates at the end of the highway. She was driving with one hand switching the signals until the songs matched up with what we saw around us. Empty fields […]

Apparitions

A line of cars wait in a row behind a stop light while malfunctioning church bells play the wrong songs and the young all blast their music in defense. A man in a wool jacket brushes the dust off a stone chessboard in the park before he sits and waits for any given game. The […]