Time Capsule
asphalt, cracked and faded stippled with yellow weeds forcing their shaggy points toward the light swings, slumbering silent in the fall of topaz light their chains eaten, pitted by iron oxide the red dust sifts and falls tiny dunes below are hidden witness walls, once painted bright stained now with age, and peeling layers in […]
And then the stars
After my father died, I spent my summers working in the canneries on the edge of town. Days of sweat and machinery thunder, nights full of hard men and dark country drives past shadowy fields of sleeping alfalfa. Weekends spent down at the tavern trading old stories for the next round of cheap domestic […]
Lunar Eclipse by the Chitose River, December 10, 2011
Lunar Eclipse by the Chitose River, December 10, 2011 The crusted snow crunching under our boots on the way to a clearing in the trees—swans on the river complaining in high-pitched cries of the cold—reminded me of breaking into a fresh-baked lemon meringue pie as a child with the back of a cold spoon. One […]
Critique of Car Accident Art Museum
Critique of Car Accident Art Museum In the first exhibit, two Honda Civics are smooshed, their hoods scrunched like a little accordion. suspended in time a second after the collision. The second exhibit: an SUV. A classic catapult-through-the-windshield job. Nothing particularly striking or original, retro-vintage-throwback, really, the outline of a person in the shattered glass. […]
Miracles
Miracles At first, the genetically altered corn Merely stretches: look at my Fashionable fronds, watch my glorious silk Wave back at you. A foreign gene Sequence here, a geometrically solved protein There, and the corn is so much more To look at. This corn thinks itself Pretty. But soon, a set of lean stalks Balances […]
