Never Trust A Puddle
By Zac Dunn
Art by Nick Flook aka Flooko
Published Issue 133, January 2025
Upon any block or curb, a tiny bit of liquid or condensation may gather prior to vanishing into the ether … a puddle may catch one’s eye and cast a gaze back inversely …
TO smile back or grimace a response so honest we claw at the day GLO antiFREEZE — smelling of alkaline mines upon an acrid plain that is brittle and fickle — crackles and snaps under DUNKS of hoofed boots as mountains upon NEPTUNE exude secluded glue. Spooned up by MARTIN and baby HELMET folk aboard a PIE-SHAPE LID or DISC that sips of COSMIC VAPOR, SPACE GRAVITATIONAL ARC welders stay attached by humble GROMMETS that WALLACE and MICK RONSON told a STAR MAN would suffice.
Tricycles often spin out of brown clouds of MOON DUST that ANGELS and DEMONS prance and gyrate like EPILEPTIC GIRAFFES’ laugher at watering holes upon a CIRCUS’ dark half.
RADIOACTIVE particles cascade infinite spectacles that fracture into prisms given by kooky mathematics folk as a joke to elaborate the perilous joy of FRACTALS, as diving as deep to the bottom of the puddle, as diving into the infinity inside the patterns of nature, a computer VOMITS back as a colorful vortex or OCULUS can see …
So
BE THE PUDDLE SO FILTHY
AND EYE SO BLIND TO MISS
THE COMET’S KISS UPON
TAILS THAT ANNIHILATE
ALL MATTER UPON ITSELF
AS THE DROPS EVAPORATE
OUR SKILL AND ABILITY
TO MAKE HATE, FUCK OR KILL
IN A HUBRIS OUTSIDE
OUR OWN WILL.
5:45 am 8.5.24.00000003 OGE
Zac Dunn is a psycho-social mechanic, father, musician and dreamer. Check out his music and follow him on Twitter | Instagram | Tumblr.
Nick Flook aka Flooko is “the O.G astronaut painter” and takes his fans on adventures through original acrylic paintings and animations. This Toronto-based artist specializes in surrealism, space-themed work and impressionistic city and landscapes. See more of his work on hissite, follow him on Instagram for more work and snag prints and originals on his Etsy.
Check out Zac’s December install, Breath Ov The Red Keap and Let Go!, and Nick’s Commission 7 Centerfold in case you missed it, or head to our Explore section to see more of his work.