Written for the 'return to sender' address on the backside of an Fayetteville, GA. Howard Johnson postcard:
Photograph is an edit of two pictures: (1), the tailfins of an 1959 Cadillac Series 62 and (2), an woman's face taken on B/W film.
An Yuletide 2023 gift to the wonderful MsDirection! An prose poem of runaway memories and hunting eldritch horrors down in an dying/morally bankrupt rendition of the US South (and failing, terribly). Thank you to
meltedbee for crit. I had an blast writing this one, mostly vibing to 1990s music and mental fixations on vague memories of speeding down paintbrush highways and figures drinking lemon tea on the sweepback wings of single-seat fighters lined on the tarmac at sunset.
Oh, how beautiful broken glass is, rendered smooth and satin in the water…