grim demons slumber in the sea by the thousands. floating about, deranged and bloated, looking like five-foot worms, cast into the bay by the great storms. the newest bodies, more plump, arms wide apart, hover a few feet above the sea floor, where grimy oxygen-starved blue mussels suck on mud. further on, more hideous bodies, […]
Tag: Jake Tringali
the everyday apocalypse – Jake Tringali
babies babies born babies born broken broken with blood infections babies birthing too early out and abandoned babies malformed and deformed with bad hearts children suffer illness pneumonia and colds young breaths snuffed cut slashed burnt a child drowns […]
Song for the Street Dogs – Jake Tringali
Raise a toast to the lowlife brahmin! Leave Boston to the Street Dogs! The lawyers and doctors and learned universities Left the city in droves, should be hanged for atrocities They called it the Incident, clapped their hands and just left Packed up their hedge funds, emptied the city coffers and hope chests […]
Murder Town – Jake Tringali
squirrel reaching for the greasy ledge scrabbling for a perch the carrion crow dives, on ancient cold instinct four times for the swindler scamming addicts with flash until one needles him back, in the small of the back gutterpunk eight-year-old swings the wailing pussycat by the tail faster faster, until his curiosity is killeda circus […]
She Swallowed the Sun – Jake Tringali
beautiful and twisted, ten-thousand pairs of solar flares looped outward from the photosphere. they sprayed and ejected and multiplied. beneath each of those flares hid arcs of electromagnetic energy, curved through spacetime. each arc flexed and whipped outward in its violence. running asymptotically through each arc, in knotted dimensions, was a shadow of an equation, […]