Barrier

Compact in the hand, sights like an arrow through the eye. The radio announcer just rambles on about the traffic and how the shitty block party with bad food at the end of the week will somehow make up for all the wasted hours. She waits by the stairs nodding her head with the music […]

Hanging Pictures Will Remind You They are There

A wall of hanging pictures all fall to the floor at once. The shattering of glass and the barrage of all the frames decorates the room in grand disorder. In the carnage you could see Fiona’s legs stick out from under their old dog who was half shrouded by some splintered wood and torn up […]

Specters

The traumatic childhood is spent often as a spectator of arguments. Arguments with no point, and no direction anywhere. Aimless rage tossed on each other in wild comparisons to dogs and ragged prostitutes, fascists, and the crazed. The punched wall like a base drum in an endless symphony that plays while sleep is searched for […]

Blizzard

White out blizzards broken through by hooded figures with their eyes the only truth out in the light. Snow owls monitor the landscape for anything that isn’t dead, and turn their heads around with no limits on their necks. Under the ice capped ponds dormant fish float in stasis and have dreams set on an […]

Hooks

Apples rotting on their branches caught up in swarms of gnats as thick as fog. Dogs pissing in the stream until it’s yellow. A long and angry distant stare across the field at the approaching masses carrying their fire in their hands. The jellyfish snagged by aluminum cans, bobbing in the waves, all rage against […]

Reclamation

The rampant realizations are spreading wider by the day the very way the winter cold spreads through the windshield. Parachute people afraid to jump out of the plane all just complain they are afraid, forever falling. I watch the workers laying bricks to build a wall between one building and the next. The mortar is […]

Glance

A beetle crawls through an empty field sustained by whatever’s crawling in the dirt. It tears them open with its mandibles and pulls the insides into itself. Birds fly over looking for it but they cannot see so easily, their perfect eyes won’t rotate in their heads. The farmer kept a row of tents full […]

Marble Statues In The Mud

Life was a lie to them like lion roars, or explosions you could hear in outer space. The pattern of bricks in the wall were arranged into X shapes for the duration of the hallway. The chandeliers would swing in semi circles. Maids and waiters would do their jobs until dismissed then spend the night […]

Empty Screens

The concrete floors of alleys have puddles in the shapes of slanted chasms deep enough to stop you in your tracks. The passing trains screamed over the town, and all around their precious cargo carried messages from cities in the South. She pierced holes around her mouth and in them placed her jewels as black […]

Thoughtless

She wraps the loose string from her sleeve around her finger, and as it tightens she remembers all the sounds. The raining glass from shattered streetlights overblown with power from the place up on the hill with all the wires. Cables like snake heads growing from snake heads. Hissing at the sky all their spitting […]