Hooks

Apples rotting on their branches caught up in swarms of gnats as thick as fog. Dogs pissing in the stream until it’s yellow. A long and angry distant stare across the field at the approaching masses carrying their fire in their hands. The jellyfish snagged by aluminum cans, bobbing in the waves, all rage against […]

Reclamation

The rampant realizations are spreading wider by the day the very way the winter cold spreads through the windshield. Parachute people afraid to jump out of the plane all just complain they are afraid, forever falling. I watch the workers laying bricks to build a wall between one building and the next. The mortar is […]

Glance

A beetle crawls through an empty field sustained by whatever’s crawling in the dirt. It tears them open with its mandibles and pulls the insides into itself. Birds fly over looking for it but they cannot see so easily, their perfect eyes won’t rotate in their heads. The farmer kept a row of tents full […]

Marble Statues In The Mud

Life was a lie to them like lion roars, or explosions you could hear in outer space. The pattern of bricks in the wall were arranged into X shapes for the duration of the hallway. The chandeliers would swing in semi circles. Maids and waiters would do their jobs until dismissed then spend the night […]

Empty Screens

The concrete floors of alleys have puddles in the shapes of slanted chasms deep enough to stop you in your tracks. The passing trains screamed over the town, and all around their precious cargo carried messages from cities in the South. She pierced holes around her mouth and in them placed her jewels as black […]

Thoughtless

She wraps the loose string from her sleeve around her finger, and as it tightens she remembers all the sounds. The raining glass from shattered streetlights overblown with power from the place up on the hill with all the wires. Cables like snake heads growing from snake heads. Hissing at the sky all their spitting […]

Consummation

Potholes so deep they pulled whole cars into hell were weaved between by those who payed attention. Late night laundromat bulletin boards get vandalized or filled up with empty offers. A woman washed her shirt and watched it spin in just her bra, and was the only reason a young boy looked up from his […]