Certified

A packed mind is like a rotting orange crawled over by endless ants that are drawn forth from the dirt like living oil. The black tree branches in the sun drink in all the heat, and the girls paint their eyes to match the dark presented there with true devotion. Irritated skin shifts and bursts […]

Barrier

Compact in the hand, sights like an arrow through the eye. The radio announcer just rambles on about the traffic and how the shitty block party with bad food at the end of the week will somehow make up for all the wasted hours. She waits by the stairs nodding her head with the music […]

Hanging Pictures Will Remind You They are There

A wall of hanging pictures all fall to the floor at once. The shattering of glass and the barrage of all the frames decorates the room in grand disorder. In the carnage you could see Fiona’s legs stick out from under their old dog who was half shrouded by some splintered wood and torn up […]

Specters

The traumatic childhood is spent often as a spectator of arguments. Arguments with no point, and no direction anywhere. Aimless rage tossed on each other in wild comparisons to dogs and ragged prostitutes, fascists, and the crazed. The punched wall like a base drum in an endless symphony that plays while sleep is searched for […]

Blizzard

White out blizzards broken through by hooded figures with their eyes the only truth out in the light. Snow owls monitor the landscape for anything that isn’t dead, and turn their heads around with no limits on their necks. Under the ice capped ponds dormant fish float in stasis and have dreams set on an […]

Hooks

Apples rotting on their branches caught up in swarms of gnats as thick as fog. Dogs pissing in the stream until it’s yellow. A long and angry distant stare across the field at the approaching masses carrying their fire in their hands. The jellyfish snagged by aluminum cans, bobbing in the waves, all rage against […]

Reclamation

The rampant realizations are spreading wider by the day the very way the winter cold spreads through the windshield. Parachute people afraid to jump out of the plane all just complain they are afraid, forever falling. I watch the workers laying bricks to build a wall between one building and the next. The mortar is […]