Ambient

An old woman cuts Apollo melons in half with a machete on a wooden table. Outside the kitchen in the bar a drunk piano player stumbles over her keys, but manages to keep the warm-up beautiful. Her hair is black and damp from the humidity and it hangs down like a curtain covering her face. […]

Name

Buildings separated by concrete and cold are getting old and you can see it in the cracking paint around every single door. People wait in mass for one of those doors to open just to sit and listen about what they left at home. A hotel T.V. plays a news story about the demolition of […]

Dark

Empty swings hover above the ground when it’s dark out and there’s no one in the neighborhood. People just outside rip parking tickets off their cars and drive home from the bars. “Just stay between the lines” is all they tell themselves. We see things so much clearer from the roof and so we clamber […]

The Star

There’s a ninja star embedded in the arm chair, sitting in the open wide garage. Every couple hundred years we tear the cities down, just to put them back the way they were before. All the empty places are slowly filling. With, if nothing else, the excess from the rest. We spend our time just […]

Angle

There is no morning that’s just what we call a certain angle of the sun when things get brighter very slowly, and the whole world has to look at what it’s done. Household demolition with a sledge hammer did nothing but teach me it was okay to destroy what I was finished with. I pretend […]

Marooned

I don’t care if anyone comes to find me, I am fine. The fishing is easy out here, and there’s a sturdy cave that staves off all the rain. I never knew before how much I needed pain until everything that numbed it wasn’t anywhere, that I could get to anyway. Everyday, I am submerged […]

She Doesn’t Wait For Everyone

Wendy pours coffee into a foam cup for a man who reads the paper with his back against the lowest window of a skyscraper. She sits in the wings of the community theater and watches her friends pace around in costumes and have fake arguments about made up people. She waits on a bench with […]