Lace

A dead bird is caught in the grill of a new car. The blood stands out so clearly against the white. They take turns rolling dice in cardboard boxes, and allow the odds to choose who eats tonight. The people waiting for the bus, in the cold, are the scarecrows of the neighborhood. The watchmen […]

Submarine

The people lost in one big massive motion, that looks just like a sea of gray and faces, all want to find their way and be okay. Ones who are assumed to be the guilty, and live their lives wrapped up in scarlet cloth, watch closely all the yellow lights around them and when they […]

Eternity

This time she hoped the gravestones would be accurate and that the names would match the teeth attached inside. She wore nothing they had seen before and even through six feet of earth the jaws of all the skeletons were dropped. They released a jar of butterflies because doves were too expensive, and a few […]

Failed Erasure

During the day he made his living painting houses and the interiors of buildings, usually over old faded attempts at constructing somewhere else from where they were. He was assigned to paint the inside of a warehouse, and he felt the open can begin to fall when he first saw all the walls. They were […]

Spread

Twigs stick out of industrial fans collected on the property. They are all completely corroded and cannot spin. Our time is thin like plastic wrap holding together a wad of money that looks too new to spend. A mask in the likeness of a giraffe goes face to face with the camera in the cash […]

Heat

Songs made only from handed down guitars and the lyrics of those with no hope pour out the windows of cars and trucks parked erratically in the lot where business is bad. On the inside they are flooded with the disappointment of another day with someone as their master. Paperwork and phone calls are the […]

Used To Be Somewhere

Houses on the sides of hills, you see them from the highway. The apple trees are overflowing, and the fruit just falls to rot among the roots. Garages full of people crowding around one T.V. so they can see a city team win just for them. Whole towns age along with their populations and whenever […]