underwater
Sunday, February 1st, 2009
words by Hayley Shields
image by Fan-Yun Chiou
Fan–Yun Chiou + Hayley Shields
Fall
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
The first frost came creeping: a spider
encrusting the earth in threads.
Brooms, cloaks, fangs clutter
attics once more. Apples
cling to the memory of slow-
sunk teeth. Hollowed pumpkins
and guttering stumps of wax discarded.
Gutters strewn with melting
carcasses, once leaves.
The last breath of Autumn-
a smoker’s cough- rasps sweetly
as she concludes her slumberous strip. Seductive
to the last.
image by Fan-Yun Chiou
words by Hayley Shields