Tag: water
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Gentrified Global Warming
Storm clouds challenged the skyscraper’s attempt At censorship, Posting their gray scale Above the CEO’s important view. The type of view Laborers risk their lives To clear smudges From the window glass. Trees dropped their seeds And hijacked peripherals Acclimated to city plants Blending in with manufactured wood, Bordering storefronts And gentrified apartment complexes, But…
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Lottery Jackpot
Questions overstocked the fellows gape, Bordering his naked Cuticle, contrasted against Pink finger points, acknowledging lottery misgivings. He still gripped quarters, Fed them to slot machines, Awarding dopamine Often reserved for Cell phone debutantes. On the 3rd reward A voice crackled over the loudspeaker Announcing His name. “Gosh.” He speculated “I’ve never won anything.” He…
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Showcases of Color with Respect to Advertisement
An explosion, origins unverified, erupted from the pond. Clumps of algae broke apart from each other and followed the current, collided with sunfish and bluegill carcasses floating belly up, reflecting full color spectrum off their scales, to combat the black of their dead eyes. Sitcom streamed through Hulu paused on a commercial break, Tide Pods…
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Like…REALLY…Drinking Water
Water in the glass Borrows the room’s temperature And contours ice shavings With tepid ripples. Exposed bone Set awry inside their voice Functions like a sewer grate. Holds the shavings At A Tongue Tip Distance, allowing liquid to filter past Inducing tingles To tissue. How’d the shivers come to this? Cosmic metals in the company…
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The Ontological Confirmation Found From a Google Search
Weather app predicted rain by 9 am, desiring confirmation in reality, window screen distorted droplets by highlighting their translucent frames through crisscrosses composed of black speckles which directed vision to study the puddles of rain water amassed along blacktop, facilitating ripples appearing like jazz rhythms and inviting the rationalization of rain-fall as the cause. Self…
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Waterfall Like Punctuation
Toenail tips at the edge of the cliff, downward spiral to welcome death as destiny and evolution compete for action. He waves to spectators organized around the plunge pool. Waterfall spits droplets and decorates his khakis with bland polka-dots, the moisture of which saturates his leg hairs like a cold shower and prompts Goose-Pimples to…
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Per the Looking-Glass through the Lighthouse
Lighthouse circulates strands of illumination through fog plumes, dressing the rocky-shores of anywhere USA in a strobe of smoky flash-bangs. Fans of Aubrey Hepburn approach the shore, wearing masks of her face, holes punctured at ear level, filled and fixed with noose knots composed from fragile twine to hold the disguise in place. They dig…