Desert Pixels
lizard darts
> > > looks
darts
trying shadow
to shade
*
tarantula
typing its way
across my shoe
*
dust devil
wins ^ ^ ^ crosses stadium
and lifts all hats
*
border wall
coyote smells the river
from the thirsty side
*
she looks up
at prairie horizon
keeps ironing
Daryl Scroggins lives in Marfa, Texas. He is the author of This Is Not the Way We Came In, a collection of flash fiction and a flash novel (Ravenna Press), and The Light I Want to Keep, a mixed genre collection (MacQ). His poems and fictions have appeared in Blink-Ink, MacQueen’s Quinterly, and Quarterly West, among others. One of his fictions was included in Best Microfiction 2020.
You can see more of Daryl's work in 14.2 14.2 and 13.1 and 12.3 and 11.3 and 10.2 and 10.2 and 10.2 and 10.2 and 8.3 and 8.3 and 8.3 and 7.2 and 7.2 again and 6.2 and 6.2 and 6.2 again and in Special Flash issue 50/50 here and here