Grins

A wall of vague stone faces haunted a smalltown in northern Maine and no one evertalked about it even as they passed itin the night. The high school kidswould drink there on Halloween or dayswhen they were bored late in the summer.She was a drummer and she would hit the kitfor hours in her padded […]

Condition

Autumn highway temperature against my bare feetas I wait there in the dark without the headlightsor the radio or anything. My shoes are on the dashcollecting moonlight in their laces, and my glasseshang by their frames from the centralized mirror.I don’t know what I’m doing here calling you to get mebecause the engine hasn’t held […]

Horizon Line

It seems to me that people don’t expect itto get colder after all those months of summermake them wonder if it will be like that forever.The inverse of this is also true and can be seenby people draping jackets over their armswhen they walk to their cars. It’s not too coldnow, but maybe tonight when […]

Glimpses of the Infrastructure

In these parts we tally up the days betweenthe weekends on the door frames that we walkthrough to our bedrooms, and the night is notenough for us to sleep through, but we have tojust to pass the lagging time. Most of us are by ourselves and those thataren’t are all afraid they soon will join […]

Washer

A dishwasher worked away just like anyother day at an endless pile of dishesthat had to be done, and he couldn’t go homeuntil he finally finished them all.The mist spread out to every wall and creepedalong the two way mirror that hoveredin between him and the office.The extra weight of endless hours in the gapsof […]

Outward

He couldn’t believe that his single bedroomwindow was unlocked and using the classictechnique of tying his sheets togetherhe repelled down the side of the buildingto make his escape. They were all thereas a way to make them stop with all theirwasted time on video games they couldn’thelp but play, but really they were countingall the […]

Phases

I drive by houses when I’m back near places I used to live and for a second it starts to feel like I have gone back to that era of my life. The days are long out here and I know the only way to shorten them is to take all of those pictures off […]