Old Fables

A carving of a woman’s torso in the red metal that makes up the bathroom stall explains to kids on car rides what their parents always hide behind old fables. The scary parts of life always sneak up on people now appearing as a glitch in the illusion. Like looking through a tinted window at […]

Long Forgotten Skies

Plastic crates nailed together made up the legs of the table. I remember them from when I opened up my eyes after a night of little sleep there in the winter. Getting up early was worth it for the people just passing through, there was so much to do between the house up on the […]

Hexagons

Hexagons cut into all the picnic tables. Humidity like the inside of a shoe. I sit there with the sharply drawn graffiti, and the think about the world now without you. We built a wooden bridge together over a small stream in the deepest parts of the trail so people wouldn’t have to get their […]

Totality

My main memory of her is seen through foggy glasses. Every time she comes to mind I have to give myself permission not to listen. We all have things we don’t like to think about usually rooted in our pain or someone else’s. I watch a hand slam down on a knife, the blade sticks […]

Decay

A goat’s eye looks back at her through the bars overlapping the storm drain. The smell of mud and other damp and dark sources reach through the confines not satisfied with being underground. They are kept there as a punishment for saying the same things repeatedly and then complaining no one understands the message. Talons […]

Make Believe

I misunderstand her question as we stand out in the driveway in the cool air that shows up right after midnight. Neither of us knows what we’re doing or what the other person wants and so we are quiet while we add up all the numbers. I think about the make believe I overheard two […]

Torrents Of Sand In The Palm Of A Hand

Barely halfway through the desert I heard the echoes of an empty tank confirming my life had been fucked by a jittery needle. I drifted like a boat to the edge of the sandy road and regretted throwing my phone when I decided to run. I set a blanket up like an awning to hide […]

Spring Cleaning

It’s important to put things in the trash. Otherwise wherever you are becomes just another hub of advertising for the things you’ve already bought. Those empty beer cans and pizza boxes on the coffee table are a times square of your own making. Maybe there’s some kind of cleaning to be done? We should start […]

Sick

There is no sickness on this earth that comes with any mercy. A sheer lack of it is what makes them so destructive. Rampaging like invisible fire they empty out the world. A bottle overturned so that it spreads across the floor like spilling blood. There is no medicine for this in fact the cures […]

For The Taking

The only thing that’s bright is all the light that leaks through holes tore through the woodwork. It projects the damage onto the far wall. They took a shotgun to it, all of them, trying to get in and give the filthy thief a lesson in the ins and outs of fucking with the livid. […]