Wreckage

There is a cut eyeand it is overlooking all of this terraincaught under all this rainwhere everything is overdueand the graveyard statue’s facesall are crying over someonethey had never even seen before alive. This town is a midnight drivewhere it is busy and the citycalls the small time working wretchesout to run their fingers over […]

Positive

I can’t tell how I’m doing simply standingin the corner with the air out and the heatall pouring in. I don’t know where to beginbut I am forced to by the winter wolfthat chases me at night when I am sleepingand continuing to never know my dreams.I can’t find my way out of the bowling […]

Vantage

She’s like the rings aroundthe planet just beyond the darkestparts of Jupiter.So clearly beautiful but far outsidewhat anyone could hold.She stands in the rain at the rest stopwaiting for anyone to offer her a ride.Another way that she can wait aroundand let the candles melt inside herblue eyes so she cannot even see.She keeps the […]

Testament

On one level she always knowsthat she is running out of it,but on another she is taking itand seeing what she wants to seeand isn’t bothered by the storiesshe is forced through in the museumof her life she lives inside of.Forty five dollars a pill almostimpossible to work for in the heatof the exhaustion, missing […]

Pry

You had to be there under parking lightswith cigarette smoke clingingto your clothes even thoseold sneakers you saved up forbefore you lost them in the lakewhen we went fishing.The village didn’t work that dayeveryone just stayed insideand looked through blindsout at the empty townafraid to utter anything.The older brother smokingall that he’s got left and […]

Conversation Piece

We’ve got to talk aboutthe important thingseven when the moongets splintered offinto the outer galaxyaway from usand nothing is the same again. We can’t forget aboutour history by only clarifyingwhat we would like it to be,and burning everythingwe cannot make amends with.There is a peach pit in herhand that she is holding outas if to […]

Sever

A right of passage denied like lightningsplitting trees apart in downpours.Young people who never met beforestay up all night on a train across the countryand tell the stories of their lives,exaggerating everything. Cutting the leg off a frog you found deadin the gravel with a pocket knife you stolefrom the junk drawer to see how […]