Negotiations

The middle ground was linoleumwith a single light fixturehanging from a chain.It had decorative glass fixturesfor the bulbs, mostly flowers,and only colorful birds. There were no words exceptwhat they said to each otherover that dark tablewith the chairs that warpedif you shifted your weightin the slightest. It was a place of promiseslike when he swore […]

Titanic

Grape vines grow like veinsover the surface of a wooden fencethat’s leaned against by herwrapped in the jacket she stolefrom my bedroombefore I woke up. She didn’t want to talkbut did anyway just to maintainthe good energy of the day.I confessed that I’d been lookingalmost everywhere. She said she didn’t careand all the spinning sunglasseson […]

Platform

A brother and sister message overinfrastructure they didn’t buildbut somehow find a wayto get across the things they neverthrought of saying.They were separated before they fullyknew each other and so the only timethey had was when the world was benton ripping them away.She reminds him of the wallpaperfrom the apartment they once stayed inand how […]

Watcher

That murky moment where the warwas like an ant hill going crazy.The whole neighborhood in circlestalking nervously while no onesaid the name.They knew what he had doneout in that clearing in the woodswhere no one wandered.Where crocodiles sat motionless inin the algae for hours until a cranedid something stupid making noise.The sound of commerce in […]

Eroded

This sheet of granite is a poor wayof describing just how everything is completefrom the beginning. Desolate long days with the same partlycloudy skies so just enough suntouches down to make you jealousof the people with a day. Heavy machinery is left to rustin the snow and the crew will claimthey didn’t know it mattered. […]

Render

The airwaves are all tilted towardsdestroying my extension chordsso all of this can finally go away. The one bedroom building by wherethe train track meets the warehouseevery morning when the moths are stilldeciding where to sleep. It’s rough out there without a coat,this winter when all the summersfeel so far off in between. Restaurants have […]

Soak

Digital alarm clock fontsin bright red like the pixelsbled in blocks of blushing light.Outside the window by the bedthey saw a single kite that flew a bit erraticallybut looked just like a dragon flythat couldn’t die alone.Stagnant water in the bullet woundsleft everywhere from meteor showersthat whistled in the atmospherelike fireworks but aimed directly down.This […]