The Tool Shed by Kasey Jueds

The Tool Shed

by Kasey Jueds

published in Superstition Review

How can I explain the way

I kept coming back—to that box

of trapped shadows with its concrete

floor, its constant chill even

on the most blazing August days. To

the stacked cans of paint with their stuck-shut lids

like the eyes of animals burrowed

in the farthest reach of forest. To the locked-in

air trembling, dense with the chemicals

that fumed from ancient bottles of pesticides & herbicides

lining the cinderblock walls, e...