Shame
I lived beyond life and the sick, beyond ruin, hung from charred trees. I felt the ghost of otherworldliness.
Mike Itaya
Mike Itaya lives in southern Alabama, where he works in a library. His work appears or is forthcoming in Oracle Fine Arts Review, The Airgonaut, Bending Genres, decomP Magazine, Queen Mob's Teahouse, and Heavy Feather Review.