Among the Cardboard Towers by Jeff Schultz

Among the Cardboard Towers

Jeff Schultz

Prefab crispbread towers totter, rusty rebar exposed, holed by furious exertions of distant bellicosity shattered windows cannot hide family photos from snow, mildew, and mold. Cars smashed like discarded toys of a malevolent giant, parcels abandoned pell-mell in the frantic flight from threats unseen. Yet the magpie chitters unperturbed.