Salal
November 27, 2018
A world that smells of sand and sea and dirt: that fishy, salty soil, musty stagnant swamp water on sweet-rooted plants. Sometimes, this place feels more powerful to me than the ocean itself. More moving, more vast; older and stronger. The rattle of leaves and conifer needles is like the sound of waves, the air […]
Grain
November 27, 2018
Across the darkened horizon sparks the light of buildings too innumerable to count. Between her and the fireflies of blurred and muddled light, there stretches a vast and silken field of gathered, bending wheat. The color has been seeped out of the golden stalks by the night and as they fall one over the other […]
the middle grounds
October 26, 2018
The mountains are vague, distant grey and green decay all muffled by snow
summer water
October 26, 2018
Along the river, winding so, the trees draw hotly close Dry air, wet ground, But lack of unshod feet The groggy song, of tired stream with dark along the banks light will filter through the leaves, but lack that cleansing heat No bodies part the echoed image, No shouts of joy do ring and a […]
Unbitter death
October 26, 2018
The smell of moss and dead things, warmed by rising sun, the carrion eater’s call rings above the clear springs run The heat of day so tiring the nature so relaxed the sweetest death aspiring the creature’s minds untaxed Green on green with brown below draped in palest yellow light only naturally, life […]
Fear of love in the big city mafia
October 4, 2018
Most other high schoolers had to worry about grades, or girls, or petty group drama and not about whether or not their mob boss father would wring their neck when he found out they were gay. Or, at least, as far as Tommy knew, they didn’t. Sure, every kid has problems with their parents, […]