Drained

Vampire drawings on the bark from a tree sit out on the table and from there you can see all the layers in the mountain cut through long ago with rapid explosions that echo out from their source even now. The woman who drew them jumped from the top. I didn’t know her before, but […]

End Of A Lease

They have to leave, but that’s easy when you don’t have any friends. Stacking cardboard full picture frames and albums full of pictures. It’s not real if you can’t see it with your eyes. All the signs that this was ending were ignored with nights pretending things were normal. The T.V. activates to static and […]

Sublime

Here we are again thinking our way back to where we always go. You never tried to find the truth you weren’t allowed to know. I bury my bare hand deep within the fallen snow, reaching for the winter while it falls around us, even though… You make a change but you want to change […]

Overheard

I see them all walking down the sidewalk with their faces pointed directly at the ground. Their headphones full of sound that cancels out all of the ordinary noises that remind them where they are. The weeds in the cracked pavement get crushed by cars that circle like the planets simply looking for a place […]

Exodus

A detached muffler hugs the side of a back road that barely anyone takes, and dirt mice live inside it like a cave. When the wind sweeps through the open fields it moves the crops the same way as a wave, and in that there is hope that we can save what worked about this […]

Greater Banks

Quiet people sit in the hallway counting the cracks in the tiles. Outside the birds chew up praying mantises with the edges of their beaks. No one is really trying anymore. Everyday is just a procession through the motions. Trains pass by a few minutes behind, merchandise sits forgotten on the shelves. Lightning strikes in […]

Incomplete

We wake up counting minutes in our heads and still we stay up late. Nothing about tomorrow is decided and yet it’s still our fate. Everything is so much less important when we aren’t awake I almost wish that sleeping was the hard part. You see her look at you through the dark, her eyes […]