A Brooklyn Atheist at Summer’s End
I swallow my last mandarin bubbles and carry the bottle to Ocean Avenue, where the bin has been knocked over, bent. Garbage suns itself on fresh asphalt: chicken bones, fry boats, white daisies covered in ketchup. Four skid marks. The church bell tolls and double-parked cars melt away. Tomorrow the bare bright circle will remain. The scrapyard I must imagine…. Read more →