Unwise Owls

A misplaced magnet in a compass makes the arrow spin like records did before we burned them all, and replaced them with the noises neurons make inside our heads. I once got drunk with a girl that’s whole career was reviewing backyard sheds. She always hated the ones that were painted red as they were […]

Invisible

A goat grazes in a field with dying grass and doesn’t blink its eye that looks just like an hourglass. A kite shaped like a man is let go and its shadow expands across the earth until its projection is colossal like the clouds that carry storms across the ocean. Entire clearings are torn up […]

Disgrace

I probably could have made it if I gave it all I had, and didn’t waste my precious time on double thinking. I could cut through any structure with the edge of my red sword that she always said was beautiful, but would simply fall away compared to her. I listen to the water drip […]

Crowded

Two acquaintances see each other again but decide not to speak. He stands by the window tables looking out for who he came to meet, but she was crossing the road between a bunch of people, staring at the signs, loud in the life lines. Someone was leaning out their apartment window and yelling at […]

Off Season

A broken light embedded in the drywall flickers and reminds me of an eye. I walk along the railing of the balcony and drink my daily serving of the sky. The beach in the distance is a woman’s lips curving at the mercy of the surf. The sand will burn your feet down to the […]

Currency

Eating what they find one bite at a time they walk along the treeline of the woods so overgrown there is no entrance. It is possible to learn to see the faces in the foliage, and they have this power between them like a canteen full of water they all share. Only one is aware […]

Fleet

A young man sits alone on his front stoop. His life had turned to a long and lonely loop. He was always stuck at another’s beck and call. At night so angry he sends his fist straight through the wall. A girl walks by and sees him sitting there. The painful look in his bright […]