Mike Harrell

The Projector

Suddenly the days
moved faster–
light flickering
through the south window
of the parlor
as through the lens
of an antique projector,
shadows leaping
erratically across the ceiling,
the final reel unspooling
in a heap on the floor.

Mike Harrell lives in Brooklyn, NY and has been published in Avatar Review, Apocrypha & Abstractions, IthicaLit, The Centrifugal Eye, Clapboard House, Soundzine, Barnwood Magazine, Depp South Magazine, and The Alligator