Immortals

There is a statue of a gamblerout front where all the pigeonsgo to peck at stones and stareout past the slowly fading roadside.This city has a tradition of immortalizingbad luck on forever so no one elsecan make it any better.There is a woman with thinning hairand a gut that she keeps tuckedinside her sweatpants.She is […]

Millennia

The empty shelves are like the ribsof some lost skeleton sticking outof the warm sand in a new desertI have only just imagined.At the oasis they are grilling upsome lizards I have never seen,and the smoke is like a goodbye hug to start with.Artists selling paintings of the landscapeor of people like the womanwith her […]

Brackets

It’s like a white out made of televisionstatic I’m talking old school on thosehuge SD T.V.s. I am walking through the courtyardof an old rundown motel out off some freewayI am trying to escape.There was a frozen water fallin my morning’s fading dreamsleading me to thinkthat all this time has been much morethan what it […]

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 […]