Anywhere

It all looks different nowabove the ground where everythingis sunny and the loading docks,where trucks connecttheir trailers to the buildings,become the scenery throughwhich the whole world walks.With every talk there is more truththat comes to light over the lipsshe moves like she is summoning my soul.Where all the halfway pointsconnect to finally form the wholeway […]

Branch

Another normal day where wetally up the numbers of what we gave away,but I can’t stay and watch.The past won’t stay out of my dreamslike it is ink bleeding through the page,and all the words there are disfiguredlike the bodies being burned in crematoriumswho never list their addresses.She takes the curtains down so everyonecan see […]

Foster

What’s the point of imagining anythingwhen it’s all laid out in front of us on demand?Even Tolkien has been replicated to infinity. How many more space operas do we needbefore we perfect the Lucas format,and enjoy that like it finally deserves? So many channels full of commercialslaced with every minor detail that ensuresyou will feel […]

Middle

Washed up like broken bottle pieceson a beach where no one visitsbecause the sunlight there is like a starefrom someone you have always disappointed.Rusted fences and tucked away peoplepaid almost nothing to be left alonebut not forgotten by the board roomspulling strings with all the ringslaced over fingertips.They go to bars where all the girlsare […]

Exile

I figured I’d get up earlyand get a little bit aheadof where I thought I’d be.Feeling for shells with my feetin the waist deep waterthat is moving independently.The crows showed mewhat it looked like in the skybefore it cried acrossthe city and filled up the openpotholes like the streethad somehow found a way to heal.Empty […]

Evening

Engine screams break silenceslike ice chips in a bucketand all the flowers she stolefrom the beds out in frontof the shoe store are dyingwhere they’re planted in the dirt.She wears only my shirtas she waters them and bothers themwith all her quiet questions.I guess she isn’t that unthoughtfulabout their time but she goeson and on […]

Immortals

There is a statue of a gamblerout front where all the pigeonsgo to peck at stones and stareout past the slowly fading roadside.This city has a tradition of immortalizingbad luck on forever so no one elsecan make it any better.There is a woman with thinning hairand a gut that she keeps tuckedinside her sweatpants.She is […]