Far Side Of The Star

Destinations buried in lookalikesget lost in what’s reusedfrom the unfinished placesrotting in the rain. Automatic doors at small conveniencestores get slower over time until you come backafter college and have to look at your reflectionwhile the aging machine moves forward bit by bit.The wine bottles look like they were copiedand pasted across the shelves by […]

After All This

I’ve seen whole birds torn apartwith just the motion of some lawn mower blades.I wear my shades inside because florescentsjust remind me of the hospital.Yeah it’s true I’ve cut off two thirdsof my fingers in the span of just these lastremaining summers.Although, I’m pretty sure my family treehas been fucking up for centuries.I’ve been to […]

The Absent

The ground was covered in crushedoranges that people walking by just sort ofstepped on like they weren’t even there.The acid coated blades of grass like dew,but with something sweeter in the mixmade everything feel different than before. The trees were like these perfect thingsmaking even the most flawed among them seemlike it knew more about […]

Afforded

She breaks a wine bottle against the cornerof the post office that they are walking pastthat night after the party. Her friends are adjustingtheir dresses by the bushes that ring with musicfrom the legs of all the grasshoppers. A wolf wanders into an abandoned townwhere a statue of a revolutionaryis in pieces on Main Street […]

Decoration

This day is like a paperweight,decorative and barely even functionalsince I don’t work in the wind,but I begin by taking stockof all the hazel mothsthat lurk around the lanternhanging loosely from a hookoutside the window. She stands barefoot on the train trackslike she doesn’t fear the cold at least a little.She bites the end of […]

Outfield

All the youngest said before they got out of the car was,“I just want to hit it out of here, so far that no one ever gets to find it.”They were at the local ballparks on a Saturday after the week was plaguedwith rainy early days. Things were damp but sunny in betweenthe clouds that […]

Every Person That You See

She was somewhere but I somehowcouldn’t see her in that graveyardwhere she found mewhen I ran away from homeso long ago. When I drove a taxi for a whileI took this thief out to his joband when I dropped him offhe didn’t pay the fare.I didn’t care thoughhe seemed cool enoughand besides I would be […]