Doesn’t Matter
The good kind of quick, if there’s a good kind.
The good kind of quick, if there’s a good kind.
The dog is frozen against the fence post.
The air tastes like ammonia and bleach and something underneath both.
Nothing but a trail of broken bone and rotten flesh.
A gust of wind stirred up the dust of the deserted street.
Amen.
Matted-hair and rotted teeth
*If you go down in the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise.
Jonas leaped over the barricade and wormed his way through an opening in the quarantine fence without being noticed, his stolen prize held tightly in his jaws.
I hitched my knapsack up over one shoulder and got off the bus.
“Good man, where might I find your nearest mooring dock?
Leaves crunched noisily under foot despite their practiced woodsman experience.