The lot’s not really vacant. Weeds grow aplenty. And so does broken glass. And empty syringes. And used condoms. There was even a dead body found here once. A homeless guy who froze to death one bitter cold January. He stumbled into here after dark. He heard there was a vacancy. He heard wrong.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, North Dakota Quarterly and Lost Pilots. Latest books, Between Two Fires, Covert and Memory Outside The Head are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in California Quarterly, Birmingham Arts Journal, La Presa and Shot Glass Journal.
