Accident

Opening her eyes was like a view straight through the fumes of melting plastic and the heat burnt off the blacktop until the gravel underneath was finally heard. I climbed the water tower just to get a sense of what I’ve been contained in and from up there it all seemed so easy just to […]

Pour

I wish I wasn’t serious about wanting this and that the place I find myself was something more for me, but I can’t see the light from where I am. A knife is like another working hand that builds by taking on what’s surging in our sights, and every night there is a slice of […]

Recognize

Disappointed in delivery speeds we wait for packages from people we will never meet or even spare the slightest word for. The worst in other people makes us worry for the darkness in ourselves and all the pressure from the daily talk is like a walk across a beach without a tide. Pop up advertisements […]

Underworld

Particles moved across my vision like my eyes were just transparent plastic slides lit up by overhead projectors. I’m stapling fliers to the telephone poles about a missing cat that isn’t mine, but still worries me when I’m up awake at night. In a vintage electronics store I buy an alarm clock because the burning […]

Crest

The start is far behind us now and there is nothing to divide us from our days and nights where all the white wolves in the valley stop and stare up at the now neglected moon. Tangled vines like veins behind an eye are in the sky and they are moving like the varied crooked […]

Awaited

New shoes on the side of the road, but you could tell because the color wasn’t faded. We make rules for each other to compliment the weakness all so apparent from proximity and every single sense we have between us. The lights turn on in the city when she sees the distant sky begin to […]

Lessons

I wait in the lobby of a music store torn down for the sake of the city only five years later. The old woman behind the counter has a smear of ointment over something on her forehead. I cannot hear the practice going on down in the chamber where my teacher takes her time explaining […]