Sleeping on the Tile Floor While the World Falls Apart From Forces Unknown, Bleak, or unDefined

by Fred Aiken

Kitchen. Knife. Darkness. Rustle. Subtle sarcasm. Outrage. Curse. 

Voodoo. Prayer.  Fingers. Bandage. 

Bleakness. A cut here. A cut there. Blood and more blood. Constant stream. Scream. Searing flesh. A thump in the darkness. A whistle in the great beyond.

But the moments gone.

Try again.