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 […]

The Line

The whole line halts like a tire spinning in the snow. Someone couldn’t let go and had their hand chewed up by gears in a moment made of thoughtless ambiguity. Over twenty years doing the exact same thing and now with one mistake he was as useless as the meat in the machine. There was […]

Stone

Open shades, like slowly waking eyes, have such a narrow field of vision for the world to move around in and without. Plastic bottles picked off by air powered rifles leak their green and red juices all over the wooden fence and feed the grass with all their sugar made from nothing. Little girls touch […]

Wreath

Everything that’s going on is wrong the wind is getting strong, and I can’t tell which way, between these concrete reaches for the sky, will take me to the place I want to be. She just stands and looks out at the sea, and wonders what is down there and hopes that I am above […]

Joke

Hundreds of frogs jump out of the stream at once making the bank move like a curtain, and the insects in the air are quickly slaughtered. A foreman dips while measuring the work of his subordinates. He likes how the bits of glass tear through his gums. A kid in class just can’t control his […]

Mall Mentality

People wander just like eyes across the shopping mall, around the giant tree with glass and lights you could see yourself in. It makes a good case for the idea that decorations shape the world. What kind of place could we make if we rearranged the things hung on the walls? She spills her thoughts […]