Thorns

I pull the thorns out of the leg the vine was wrapped around. I bleed in dots that sting like whiskey shots, but worse and not nearly as intoxicating. I leave the bloody vine where it lays and make my way across the empty field where the grass is long and combed by the wind […]

New Layers

Fighting over food where nothing grows. The grass is short and full of snails that bend the blades like question marks but mirrored. A statue of a giant bear wrapped up in moss and fungal patches is the only thing that stands tall in the clearing. Industrial development has always drained the magic from the […]

Gather

A microphone dangles from a cable hung from a streetlight and as it sways its sensors pick up on the wind. A crowd with glowing necklaces, and paint that covers what their clothes are showing off, stand in picture perfect circles wrapped around a place of ever burning fire. Tall men carry women half their […]

Sail

She puts her ear up against the door to listen for something more than just the wind, but you never get what you want while fretting over wishes. There were dishes in her sink floating in the foam of all her scrubbing. When she looked out at the city the best she ever saw was […]

Blur

A new constellation in the shape of a division sign could be lined up if your eye was just off center. It was wedged between Orion and the newly waning moon in a modest swath of sky, that didn’t even seem that high, but still was way far off from any rocket. At night the […]

Spill

The polluted stream looks almost purple in the sunrise and in her eyes I can tell that she is angry to the ends of every version of the earth. Mutated fresh water squids suction cup themselves to jagged rocks to keep from getting further lost but at the cost of getting cut by all the […]

Main Street Mural

A broken gum ball machine spreads color to every corner of the hall. Just another prime example of a decaying mall, and there is no one coming to put things back together. The skylight is cracked like a spiderweb and let’s the rain pour through like tears seeping into a blanket, it gets heavier the […]