The Showbear Family Circus

Author: Kelly Hegi

  • Echo

    Echo

    Words echo. They seep.                         They soak. They weave in and through – under and around. Usurper.I’ve been warned about you. Wolf.You know it all. Jezebel.Shame, shame, shame. Blind.Leading people straight to hell. Move.There’s nothing for you here. Soak.             Seep.                         Echo.

  • beyond is this that

    beyond is this that

    Is this that?            Who is wrong?                        This guy or his family? Is this that? The paradigm is all wrong.            This isn’t that. This is valuable and about to be made right.            This is for more.            For new starts and fresh hope.            For a new way of being, of thinking, of seeing. This is beyond.            Beyond…

  • graphite

    graphite

    Don’t drop it. It’ll shatter.But she’s not listening.She doesn’t care. And there’s nothing I can do but wait.One breathTwoAnd then the sharp clatter. It’s three pieces now.She shrugs. Sorry.Concrete is unforgiving, unyielding.I don’t have that luxury.

  • smoke

    smoke

    You smell like smokeIt was cruel and trueA club in her handI was wrecked, disjointed It was cruel and trueThere was aftermathI was wrecked, disjointedI’m sure I do There was aftermathI decided to stayI’m sure I doTo stand in the burning I decided to stayA club in her handTo stand in the burningI smell like…

  • dust

    dust

    It was going too fastI didn’t want it to be doneI didn’t want to leave her there aloneJust a little more I didn’t want it to be doneIn the silence, in the darkJust a little moreThe dust in the jar wasn’t really her In the silence, in the darkThis was as close as I was…