Tag: library

• February 23, 2022

  sum.non.sum.non.curo

  Part One. Re-imagining Icarus as a Candle. Horror directors style their killers in masks. The ability to leave them nameless and faceless contrasts anonymous interactions against the trope of the killer always being someone familiar to the protagonist. They never “see it coming” the same way a domesticated turkey trusts that their trip to slaughter […]
• June 15, 2021

  Ode to City Parks as Metaphor for the Tax-Gap

  City Park’s  Grass  Acclimates to foot-traffic,  Folds Like two parallels, never to meet.  Trophy fabric  Succumbs to the wind And smacks its clamp Against the metal flag-pole.  Clouds become Objects Familiar to imperial culture.  “I see a bear!” “I see a bull!”  Inside a shadow. Is it human?  Light pollution  Mired in smoke plumes  Curls […]
• December 11, 2020

  That Must Be

  1. Cartoon pageantry issues thought bubbles, captioning the forethought Of blank stare senders, censoring make believe per banal understandings. 2. Providing new fashionable rebellion; Davies shoplifts three shades of blush. She takes them to her library’s public restroom, dips a sponge in the green makeup and inscribes her confession of theft onto the mirror. Davies […]