Hiding in the cracks of this pulsing muscle.
That beats unsteadily on,
Is a piercing of glass shards.
With each beat I lose more blood.
 
Like a flock taken to the skies,
I am detached from the earth,
But birds fly together.
Untethered and undone,
I am a lone feather.
 
And the ache spreads like poison,
Black, threading my veins,
Hidden beneath this unbroken flesh,
A woven pattern of pain.
 
The blood drips down arm,
The claws...

A bullet in glass. Crack. Crack. Crack. Everything comes down. 

I climbed aboard a cargo ship, 
Because I thought I saw the sun, 
I let myself be pulled from the water, 
Because my heart had been undone. 

Forever I have been drowning, 
Choking on the water in my lungs, 
For an eternity I have been gasping, 
Feeling so lost and young. 

I see myself and recoil, 
At the sight of my reflection, 
Scarred and cracked and flawed, 
On the surface it is perfection. 

I sink to the bottom of the...

A mirror reflecting shadow, as dark as the shadow itself. 

“Eggs?” I ask, offering the bowl. “You still like ‘em scrambled, right?”
    Jen smiles tiredly and takes the proffered bowl, grabbing a spoon and piling the eggs onto her toast.
    I sip my coffee and unfold my newspaper. The fragile pages rustle with the movement.
    “Where’s Mum?” she asks as she settles the bowl back down in the centre of the table.
    “Out. Had to go into work.”
    “It’s Saturday.”
    I shrug, keeping my eyes trained on the article in...

About two weeks ago, I made the decision to finally watch Prison Break in the wake of its recent revival. As you would expect based on the title, the series regales viewers with the thrilling tale of Michael Scofield, a structural engineer who purposefully gets himself arrested one month before his elder brother is due to be executed for a crime he didn’t commit. Having failed to prove his brother’s innocence the traditional way, Scofield spent the previous year developing...