by Taylor Grace Flowers (2023) Late, late at night, already early into the next day, that wet-blue time of night when nobody belongs anywhere, I am only ever then finding my way home. And somehow I have always made out a different path there. I never learned the city, not after a month and not…

by Taylor Grace Flowers (2023) Whether any rain who’s to say. The sky’s all clear and blue now late afternoon though when I went to bed this morning everything was white, couldn’t see a cloud, maybe everything was cloud, clouded, and all the fields looked so flat and wet, this great vast line against the…

by Taylor Grace Flowers (2019) It was March. The late winter’s cold had been hanging on and he hadn’t been to the store in weeks. He wanted to tell anybody who would listen that all he had left were a jar of dill pickles, two sprouted russet potatoes, a bag of carrots in that slippery…

Animated color wheels like a dream of a country undiscovered and always bright open an hour or a little less empowered across space, everywhere, and across time, five years they say, to honor the patience and mind of the human design. I’m sold. You feel new. To watch you feel new. Your world’s awash with…

Somewhere before morning you might hear before you see. It is most like this in very cold places and it can be just terrifying. Say the desperate, desolate sound of a car that won’t start, dead of winter. And that becomes the only sound, and the sound bears all your fear. All of it. Also…

Here it’s only starting to get a little cooler but now this means rain too. Rain falls most days, even just a little, and lightning sometimes comes across the sky looking like nothing I’ve ever seen, brighter and somehow more electric, heavier almost, reaching always westward over the interstate. I’ve lived in Texas five months…

On Thursday as on Friday as on Sunday, good days, as on any day of the week whose sun comes down heavy and explicit or not but so it’s the kind of sun you can feel, beyond heat, feel in the things and in the people beyond yourself, those things and those people basically radiating…