Plastic Bag Transparency

It was spoken like a sermon set aroundan empty alter in the multi-colored sunlight.I got my cardboard box and filled it upwith almost everything I brought there,but really didn’t care at all about the rest of it. I saw her on the seventh floor looking downat me walking out with my tie wrappedextra tight around […]

Staff of a Local Convenience Store

Everyone’s convinced they are incrediblein opposite directions.The coffee tables they have had discussionsin the presence of remember themas the group that never knowswhat it is doing. They were responsible for sorting outthe problems they created in the pastand only walked around the park when it was winter.They all knew each other in college,where the configurations […]

Spine

Sometimes the moments I’m about to forgetbecome the worst versions of themselvesbefore they fade away.I take a look at the food in the fridgeto take my mind off what I’ve gotta do today.I think that if time and money were reallya one to one comparison than the unemployedwould be as wealthy as the owners that […]

Sacrament

A young priest walking by himselfsaid silent prayers inside his twistedhead. He wished that he was deadso he could know if all that faithwas ever worth it. She was perfect aside from clearly beingwounded on the roadside.There was moonlight in the mixup of her hair.He didn’t care that they were strangershe was sure he had […]

Delivery

They know they don’t need all of usmaking noise out hereby an empty field waiting for morning.We bet our time against the brick wallthinning out from just the particlesof skin caught in the wind. Pizza box towers are a monument to sinand they begin with just a phone callto a stranger, and they ask youwhat […]

Timing

It’s quiet in this open fieldwhere crows all dronetheir tales of nightly conquests,but in voices not much louderthan a discrete conversation. That is until some late nightkids in striped blue patternedshirts pick them slowlyoff the metal fencewith rocks they all withdrewfrom garden beds. They don’t watch out for headlightswhen they break out of the graveyard,and […]

Mythomania

They are talking about T.V. at a tablein a common room where no one elsecan stomach anymore of them.They are an unpopular clubthat unofficially should not have the timeto meet or even speak aboutthe signal that’s received at every broadcast. The decoration committee is stuffingstraw into some old clothesmaking scarecrows they can hangthroughout the hallways,and […]