Righteous Angles

If a verse made Helen feel faint, she encoffined it within a precise rectangle before blacking it out.

©2011, Peg Duthie

Anglefic

Sy loved to lurk in the corners of the aquarium. People veered away as he murmured to himself stories about where the fish had been.

©2011, Peg Duthie

Angle of Repossession

In her teacup, she spies a noose. It looks to me like a halo.

©2011, Peg Duthie

Tangled

Laced into the labyrinth of your fears, I snag on shadows and pin myself to phantoms.

©2011, Peg Duthie

Steep Angle

The steep angle alarm jangled as he tried to wrangle the plane with its mangled dangling tail onto the runway, “This jet is too newfangled!”

©2011, Michael Donoghue