Bard

A lost driver on a dark street

With a page-missing map

Weeping in mind

Over the details

Of an empty minute

Lost inside

A broken watch

Crying to please

Spaces on paper

With kidnapped moments

Awakening

The complacent thought

The dread on sun-parched lips wishing for an ice cold Pepsi

instead of a body covered in oil and sticky sand

The warm breath of a mountain lion

after chewing on the carcass of a newborn lamb

The tip of a tongue on the nipple of a women’s breast

A dying mother cradling a starving child with tiny toes

The aroma of rising gas from a fat man’s ass

The grief of a still-born child

Flaking paint on an empty house

The clothing of a missing girl

Onion rings on a greasy napkin

The wrinkles on an old man’s face

The smell of burning cocaine

By Jon Aretakis