Better Not to Know

I watch people walk up and down the hill at the end of the street, surrounded by others, cars, and dying stores. They look past each other like they aren’t in the same world. A veil between them as dense and tall as the colossal structures around them; a hotel with dozens of floors, a […]

Drowsy

She overslept and missed her one chance at the train. The glass of water on her windowsill, bent the morning light in every color. Her clothes hung out of half closed drawers in a dresser handed down from her mother. After she stood in the shower with her eyes closed she got a sense of […]

Spiderweb

The light in our eyes won’t let us sleep. It lures us apart from each other. We are cornered in its glow, more than we all even know, and beetles crawl along in the trees. You say the wrong thing and you punish yourself. You hold your hand over the candle. You bite into your […]

The Dial

The ignored radio station gets to songs that no one likes, and nobody steps up to move the dial. Apartments left empty full of paintings or wood workings, little projects for fun. Some are done, but most are still in progress. They are left in the wind so we can pay for our sins by […]

One of Many

Crushed cans in the hands of desperate scavengers, looking for a sign. Their broken minds just hardware for a blurry loop of all their memories. They try to linger on the good by breathing fumes under the hoods of stolen trucks. They don’t give any fucks carrying handfuls of torn bills to the man by […]

Suspension

Familiar faces look away from each other on the street. There is no courtesy no apples in the trees. The rain water collects in the broken concrete. I hold my ear to the ground and hear an imitation of the ocean. We have always been the best at pretending. Adopting the techniques of everything around […]

Jawbone

She pulled a jawbone out of the sand, and held out her hand, it looked to me like it was from a dead coyote. She made it into a necklace using colorful string and when she wore it she always said it made her stronger. The loud semis parked crookedly in the empty parking lot […]