Red Box Phone
I sit by the phone With the lights off. It’s red like the idea of a fire hydrant And smooth, the paint unpeeling. I wait. For…
No. 5 · Harvest Time
Victorian Secret Service
Smelling salts under noses, Victorians know nothing of the Elements, striding into storms wearing suits of Metal, calling down the lightning and Eating up the cumulonimbus…
No. 5 · Harvest Time
Double Lung Transplants Aren't For the Faint Hearted
I know a girl who wishes the transplant scars were transparent opening up her chest to the universe like a Marvel comic with dials and tubes…
No. 6 · Salem Cemetery
Questions I Have About Water
trickling over eyelids and working under fingernails to the beds it isn't necessary to be immersed in water to be cleansed the sky water catching with…
No. 8 · Crossroads
Ten Minutes Before It Happened
we were walking towards the theatre where all the actors smoke outside curtains, reeking of cloves I didn't see it coming Did you – did you…
No. 8 · Crossroads
Running Red Lights in Indiana
Beating out the battle silence Calling always on to rage Blood thirst dripping up and down my throat You have to watch out for motorcycles on…
No. 9 · Tracks
I Would Swear It If I Believed.
He turns away, he meant it, not to kill her but to strike To regain that cultural sense of manhood that says men are never beaten…