Tag: fiction

words rust and disintegrate before they leave pale lips

bedside alley toes exhume the carcass of a beetle from darkness

stone insects follow the great divide and crawl across summer’s horizon

islands rearrange sand and tide shift in rhythmic response to a calling beyond

the full moon atop its seat of power swallows you whole with its queer gaze

the city traps you in liquid concrete and rushes you into the void

the moon trades its madness for some borrowed light

bells sound in terror at the sea fog creeping in on humanity

the first rays of dawn birthed between the mynah’s beak