Tag: Nostalgia

• May 21, 2023

  A Nostalgia Based Diet

  A disheveled manTaking advantage of uneven cracksRepresented in the parking lot.Anchored his pickup in the corner, utilizing blacktop edgesAs unearthed punji sticks to ward off visitors.He dispensed his belongings from the cab,Leaving articles of clothing, gutted electronics,Crucifixes, rotten fruit and vegetables, empty soup cans,In multicolored mounds at his wheels.Bird songs narratedTwo eyes meeting.A parking lot’s…
• 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…
• January 26, 2021

  accidental. art.

  Vandals incorporated cracks, lingering in lightning-bolt directions, about City Hall’s concrete walls, into their compositions. Situating horizontal darkness to represent Frida’s unibrow, overcasting her stern expression, holding court to brief glances. Entering to pay parking tickets, or demand the mayor “do something” about an intersection frequenting accidents, lacking the appropriate command posted in White and…