Inertia Stories

verbal

19 Oct 2015

Local Infuences

Bodies at rest tend to stay at rest, no force moving them forward

By mid-afternoon it was snowing, one of those early spring one-last-time sucker- punch squalls, and as the sun went down, and the streetlights came on the temperature rose a couple degrees and the snow began to mix with freezing rain. This would have been...

RedSonja

1 Jun 2013

Inertia

after a long dry spell surrounded by undrinkable water, sometimes rhyming words that aren't there

dead calm adrift  a vast pacific mirror waiting salt-poisoned dreams  fevered fish flying a school cracks the glass overarching my too well-made craft still afloat enduring land in sight white prismatic floating mountains cool promise sending shards of li...