Center Of The Circle

A child asked his stressed out mom where their water came from, and she didn’t look up from her work just to shrug both her shoulders. He went out back and kicked a pebble around the house until it wound up in the street that was a circle with a center made of concrete that […]

Expanse

We’re not gonna worry about it now this place this year this collision of the decade into the new age, this burning book so hot you can’t even see the page. Walking out from under overpasses between rows of abandoned cars humming songs we haven’t heard for several years now. She licks her fingers and […]

Indigo Sight Line

In her sleep she finds herself afraid of all the people in her dreams, and when she wakes up she remembers its the same across all forms of conscious sight. She can’t help but watch them chew as they eat breakfast talking with each bite about car accidents they read about or politics since its […]

Center Demolition

It was the sidewalk equivalent of crooked teeth, so bad, she had to walk on the edge of the roadside. Grids of fences surrounding gutted factories now mostly ruble aside from some administration. A man in a suit stood alone next to a small white helicopter at the center of one of the perimeters. She […]

Outside All The Painted Lines

She pulled her sweater off to cool down beneath that tree, and just sat there while she laughed at what was left of me. I was unable to blink a single eye. She called me over to her side and I stood there looking down at her crossed arms not allowing any drift towards anything […]

Siphon

In the sand again I feel it shifting. The weight of one idea over another. An outcome like a burnt tree still standing in its ash encrusted husk. A line of people sit on a pier and wait for dusk when it is obvious which side we all belong to. I don’t want you to […]

Reasons

I pick up the cup and watch through its clearness as the liquid moves along the rotating glass. I pour it out over the grass watering its roots with the cheapest stuff the grocery store sells to people like me. People with more debt than money, and more knowledge than sense to apply it. I […]