There is no beginning to the story. A bookshelf sinks into the sand and a language learned and forgot, in turn, is studied once again. It’s a shocking bit of footage viewed from a shitty TV screen. You can squint at it through snowy static to make out the meaning. Just keep on stretching the […]
The Big Picture The picture is far too big to look at kid. Your eyes won’t open wide enough and you are constantly surrounded by that swirling stream of what is and what was. Well, we’ve all made our predictions but the truth still isn’t out. So if you want to see the future, go […]
I dreamt of a fever, one that would cure me of this cold, winter set heart. With heat to melt these frozen tears and burn with reasons as to carry on. Into these twisted months I plunge without a light to follow but I swear that I would follow anything just get me out of […]
There is a middle-aged woman dragging her feet. She carries baskets of clothes to a laundromat. While the Mexican children kick rocks into the street and they laugh in a language I don’t understand. But I love them. Why do I love them? So the neighborhood is dimming as I smoke on the porch and […]
Did you expect it all to stop at the wave of your hand? Like the sun is just going to drop if it’s night you demand. Well, in the dark we are just air so the house might dissolve. But once we are gone, who is gonna care if we were ever here at all? […]
Sunrise, sunset. Sunrise, sunset. Swiftly go the days. Sunrise, sunset. You wake up, then you undress. It always is the same. A sunrise and a sunset. You are lying while you confess, keep trying to explain. The sunrise and the sun sets you realize and then you forget what you have been trying to retain. […]
At the center of the world there is a statue of a girl. She is standing near a well with a bucket bare and dry. I went and looked her in the eyes and she turned me into sand. This clumsy form that I despise, it scattered easy in her hand. And it came to […]
The phone slips from a loose grip. Words were missed then some apology like I didn’t want to tell you this it’s just some guys she has been hanging out with oh I don’t know the past couple of weeks I guess. Thank you and hang up the phone. Let the funeral start. Hear the […]
Tomorrow when I wake up I’m finding my brother and making him take me back down to the water. That lake where we sailed and laughed with our father. I will not desert him. I will not desert him. No matter how I may wish for a coffin so clean or these trees to undress […]
The fragile keep secrets, gathered in pockets, and they will sell them for nothing a cheap watch or locket that kind of gold washes off. The sad at like lepers, they stick to the shadows and long to ring bells of warning to tell of their coming so that the pure can shut their doors. […]
