by Dana Jerman

Oil Stains

Glistening Soda Spills

Ripped Receipts

Retail Tags

Smashed Bottles

Filthy Plastic Bags

Broken Glass

Crushed Bottle Caps

Filtered Cigarette Butts

Fake Lashes

Knotted Hair

Soiled Thong Underwear

Torn Grass

Tarnished Coins

Sun-bleached Cigar Wrappers

Burnt Matchbooks

One Bent Key

Wadded Napkins

Blackened Gum

Mirror Shards

Smithereens of Nutshells

Snapped Rubber Bands

Brown Leaves

Dark Gravel

Flattened Cardboard Burger Boxes

Used Bandaids

Slabs of Tire Rubber

Splintered Toothpicks

Exploded Ketchup Packets

Flashing Corner of a Candy Wrapper

Fatigued Edge of a Fingernail Clipper

Shredded Business Cards

Impaled Paper Cups

One Crusty Syringe

Semen Tears Phlegm

Piss Blood

Shit

And

Sky.