The Dentist

She carved up people’s teeth all day with hooks like the hands of pirates, and there was always someone waiting there to blame all they neglected on a basic lack of knowing what to do. So she explained to them how to live a clean life and keep those frequent bites forever painless. This was […]

Measured By The Bottom Line

Houses made of scavenged stone and mortar mixed from rocky dust the night remains insanely dark without the surface of the ponds which return the stars and moon back to where they dangle from the ropes. Misunderstood people all walk around their respective blocks avoiding clocks and any symbols of tomorrow while all their sorrow […]

Moths

There’s a scarecrow on a cross and it’s shadow spreads across the land like it is doing everything to get its feeble arms to wrap around the earth and slow it down. Tables at restaurants with hot sauce bottles in the shade of the partially open blinds are occupied by inter dimensional guests. They know […]

Haircut

She cuts my hair with the set of electric clippers I ordered from a catalog I found left on a bench while I was lost. I was mostly just surprised they still made catalogs. She told me she wanted a million dogs and to raise all their pups like they were children of her own. […]

Exposure

Old footage buried in the cards it looks a lot like it was shot on something ancient. I see her by the edge of the dam looking out at all the water we are holding back with nothing but a wall. I’ve seen tornadoes skate on that horizon line like it’s supposed to be forever […]

Oasis

Results are just a mirage of an oasis you will never reach the way you now expect that you will reach it. There are pelicans there lost on their way to the salt water and ocean air. Still you stare at them and pray that they are real. What do you feel out here in […]

Sickly

The refrigerator is full but its light is broken. It always flickers when you open up the door. I saw a woman throw a paper airplane from her balcony, it did one loop in the air then slid cleanly in between the lips of a storm drain, then dissolved in all the teardrops of the […]