Laura LeHew: “Should We Vanish”

          “you may drive nature out with a pitchfork but she will always return”

            ~Horace

1.

To Whom It May Concern:

By an unfortunate error we’ve

misidentified civilization. It was,

in fact, not created by the deity or

deities known sometimes as God

but by Mrs. Charles [Anne] Hobart of Kansas City,

Missouri head of the Abstinence For You-All Coalition.

We sincerely regret this error

and offer our apologies.

~Jesus Tran-Rodriguez

  Transitions Director

  New Directions in the Great Urban Outdoors

  Building Bigger and Better Prisons

2.

maybe she wanted him

the impossible dialog

Something Imagined

3.

Write your name

in a veiled raven.

4.

the sun detonated

it made a lot of noise

it was over                                                                                                                                        

5.

An error has occurred.

The feed is probably down.

Try again later.

6.

flick off the light switch

7.

The ghosts are laughing

I still have hope