Frenzy

If this is really what you say it iswe’ll never have to wonder where were going.She said to him over the plastic tableat the burger place they bothhad gotten tired of. He was showing her a messagefrom his friends, she didn’t know yet,inviting them to almost every partythat was happening that weekend. They settled up […]

Poorly Printed Yearbook

Wind chimes help remind themthere is something outsideall that they take shelter in.They run the pens againstthe bleached off color whitenessof the papers they are handedwith the lines they need to coverwith their names.There isn’t time for them to playtheir games and take their morningslowly like they should.A piece of everyone knowsthat this is mostly […]

Hypothermic Stowaway

You can look awayit’s okay to be afraidof what is happening.The boat is burning upand you are floatingin the never ending waves.The water is cold enoughto kill you fasterthan the drowningever could,and there you stoodas it was finished sinking under. You know what could be down thereall the creatures in the cornersof the maps and […]

Ladies And Gentlemen

She is standing in his shadowin a shroud that covers everythingabout her, and if she raises her defensesit would only serve to make the moment worse.An unrelenting curse that hasn’t let its gripslip after everything they’ve gone throughup against it. Another on a couch somewheredrinking in her underwearcries tears over the fear she feelsaround him.It […]

Closer

Fire face like a broken place,mountainside unwavering againstthe water slides that try to imitate them.I think I hate them but it kills me to admit thatsince I know it’s just a feelingand a feeling isn’t anything but noise.There isn’t anything here betweenthe liquor stores and people wanting moreof what they barely have.There is a body […]

Transmutation

She’s like a piece of spider webfloating on the surface of the pondand she is gone again before I lookto see her and remember where I aught to beas something almost permanently caught.This thing we all are held withinis changing like how dancers in a stage showpull their costumes over costumes behind curtainsin the dark […]

Post Authority

Hunger can help sometimesbecause the emptyness is oftenlike an iceberg no one’s seen before,out somewhere in the dark partsof the ocean. I can’t wait for you hereon this empty streetwhere no one livesand the garbage cansare still around for miles. I replace my memorieslike ceiling tiles gatheringup dust and fading structureuntil there’s nothing leftof what […]