checking in on my blind spot
Art by Joshua Schultz (2026)
television static in chameleon skin
crumbled drywall or paper snow
dead optical cells and misprocessed vitamin A
the brown splotch on white ceiling tile
a festering coffee stain
right above your third-grade teacher’s desk
the pipe that burst before you were conceived
left to rot at the taxpayer’s expense
the quiet kid in your biology lecture
packing up his belongings too early
forgetting to push in his chair
the tenured professor
calling you “Susan” when your name is “Samuel”
spilling scalding herbal tea on your lap
residing in the technicolor pixels
of a mother’s featureless face
in between the first and final letters
of any written word
inside feel her
diameter widening
circumstance expanding
her static absorbing and destroying
compressing and condensing
then collapsing in on itself
until there is nothing
but her.
