Thought Clouds

the construction workers rolled in with their war machines (cranes like siege towers / cement mixers full of permanence) in a grand...

when Philando Castile was shot the intersection of Snelling and Larpenteur became a zoo cars slowed down attracted to the strange carnage...

the wild sun collapses into the Mississippi as two carbon bodies collapse into themselves two graduation robes are tossed into the forest...

mother it is gilded with your prayers that I wander forth into another dusk your faith in me unwavering surrounds me like armor but...

I never deserved this smile through which I enter every day carved from the hollow years I spent without it the sight of it instills in...

I left my manager standing like that (45 years old and working fast food) shoulders slumped he looked like a forlorn asparagus separated...

spiraling down from the uncle's elm tree always looked like people to me: rotating, careening through so much hot air, spinning down...

We can’t go back to the creek no more Why on earth not Well the land just sold So many memories — now I feel old it was the creek where...

limps down the prairie road like a lost mammoth children shed their schoolbooks at the front step and sprint for the dock, heads rising...

see how we inflate our rubber heads with dreams fit to make us fly: there was a boy in my Kindergarten class who wanted to be an...