Weight

So this is what you’re up to nowbribing us with concert ticketsand permission to smokeall we like in your garage.I hate to say it but your offeris a good one so I’ll see youin the last half of the summerwhen the pollen is the foggiest,and the toads get nice and coveredin their poison. The lilies […]

Natsu

We all are too afraid to let our faces showwhile we watch our our little flowers growin caramel colored ceramic potswe’ve stacked in a row by the window,we always look straight throughto the other side of the island.There’s a donkey chewing onion grassby the dirt road kids ride bikes downevery summer day, and the thing […]

Mediums

New bosses replace old ones,but there’s always someonetelling you what you should do.What’s your saving gracefrom outer space that shows upthrough the telescope to tell yousomething you already knewbut didn’t want to unpack furtherbecause in doing so you’d haveto let things go?If there are angels in the snowthere must be demons alsobut the shapes they […]

Rephrase

We’ve been talking a lot latelyme and the stray dog ridden with fleasout behind the diner wrapped in chromeas if the owners somehowknew about the future.It doesn’t say much back to me but let’sme know it’s listening by noddingat me occasionally with its calloused eyesthat barely even see.I’ll find it dead one day I know […]

Clock Out

A cashier leaves her shift behindwith just a short half hour still remaining.It is raining when she walks into a dark gapbetween the patch of trees just pastthe endless parking lot she always seeswhen she is looking out the windowwhere the bags go after she hasdone her job the way they taught her to.She sits […]

Harpsichord

Sauce left on a baking tray,left out from the other daystiff and likely tastelesslike my mind. I wish there was another wayto fix things like a light bulbalways flickering so looselyin its socket. Things aren’t always easy thoughand when you can’t forgetall that you knowyou distract yourselfwith everything that’s brighter. A statue of George Washington,at […]

Chicken

I will give you all I’ve made todayfor a chicken sandwich wrappedin golden tinfoil.It looks like treasure or the brainof something ancient and mechanical,beyond all we consider to be normal.No more awkward dinners where the wordsall come out empty and the glasses allare empty and the halls outsidethe dining room are barely litby candles smelling […]