Fugitives
We wait in the car while the engine purrs / and I shiver in my Woody sweater / like it’s raining outside
JAKE
Lonely Without Friends
The father stares down ten-year-old Darien. The boy rises and walks to the corner to wait for the light, then steps into the street and picks up the bottle. He brings the bottle back to his father.
Cerebral removalists
Moving house is moving between / pockets of time and space
The Relaxed Version of a Man
I sip my drink and read a book. The drink is fruity, over sweet, and alcoholic -- I hate drinking in the daytime, but I am on vacation and play the part. The book, it’s okay. If nothing else, it shades the irksome sun from my face.
Balaclava
He ignored his customers’ penetrating glares and sly whispers and began stacking cage eggs.
5:49p.m. on May 5, 1821 on St. Helena
who retreats?
teeth dreaming
there are no giants / there are no talking fish / there is no megalodon, / the dream is over.