Scott Archer Jones

Torn Scrap of Sky

Evidence Locker
Subject: Angela Blau, deceased
242 dollars in bills
16 cents in change
Sleep Inn key card
Eyeliner and feathered brush
A small tube of base makeup
Silver button to a blazer, red thread
Rouge, small jar, a fingertip's smear
One Brash hightop knit shoe (Payless)
Hyundai key fob: car key and house key
One lipstick, as humanly beige as possible
A seagull's bright scream of fish-scented anger
A broken shard of mirror that reflects the ocean
Two foil-wrapped condoms, brand I HATE HIM
One tissue, encrusted with mucus and a blood clot
One pair of underwear, cotton, spangled with stars
A slice of moon, smelling of goat cheese, wrapped in
seaweed
Four small packets: sugar (2), dairy creamer, and the smell of
rain
A mutilated piece of chewing gum, wrapped into a torn
scrap of gray sky
Second shoe not recovered.