Breathe Spilled Like Bone

Ariana shrugged facing Josh’s mocking clap the stringy harmonica rang acrobatically on the streetlights. He handed her a firebomb, eyes sharp as vinegar. They ran across the hot asphalt, watching the brass kite rise. Both caught in the whirlpool of the maze, they guided the trumpet, mandolin filling the air, sinking into the smokehouse. Her jacket flared, body pitching like a haystack, cracked like an explosion. Cigar smoke swindled trembling hands at the phone’s text crime. Tightened waist, ribs vacant Her throat rasped open, gasping. Stomps flew, trumpets lit, feathers popped, and breath spilled like bone in the dusk.