Perch

Cold soda on the basement stairswhere the ground is like a mountain sideand the water heater singsabout the table saw.Peppered jerky in a plastic bag,a drawer with only knives in it,all under bats that sleep like cats,up just two ceilings.A red satellite like a higher kite,we aren’t connected to,but could be if we wanted to.Mercury […]

Lighthouse

Don’t desert me out here in the wildernesswhere anything can be born out of the surfor tangled masses past the tree linewhere the light has trouble shiningthrough the canopy. I want to steer the boat while you supplymomentum with the riveras it carries us along.I want to carve cheesy quotes into the oarslike we traveling […]

Faded

We live off what is bad for us.The taste of tar while drivingmy old car across a region,I’ve been hanging in forever.I’m okay with going home early,or never really going out at all,since there are days worth whatwaits quietly alone. The trailer park is filled with porch swingsno one uses and old rustedbikes left around […]

Insolate

Orchids chew on sunbeamswhile they nod at all the silentpassing humming birds.I kill them with a spadeI took from a garden shedin an overgrown section of the forest,no one knew about but me. The world is a spiraling treebent out of shape for usto mangle into shelter.Whole packets of trading cards,burnt in a barrel, still […]

Track

This horse race based gamewe play on the day to dayis getting older like the manat the track waving dollar billsas they roar past.A place where we only ever beton who’s in last down at the finish linewhere the world ends every lapor so it seems. Humans have it in their hearts to simplifybecause the […]

Curriculum

No matter how I go and tryto make it otherwisethe only thing I’ve learned fromhas been pain. Cutting my handon an empty canI was trying to crushto make the pointthat it was garbage. I’ve been in bad groupsthat would lurk whereno one cared.Using infinite obscurityto justify how homewas held together. Those memorieshave lost remaining colorin […]

Polarity

Windows without views worthany passing by to stop and takethe world in from the vantage pointpresented there.Foggy glass with trees beyond itand some sky in the right cornerif you searched for it.Miscommunications over textwhen the meeting always meantthere would be more beforethe rest of us could sleep.A broken light fixture dangling in front ofthe entrance […]