Stranger, your Chucks turned up at the toes, I want you to Google me and find nothing because once over anything, a person needs someone who doesn’t leave cabinet doors hanging open overhead; a rowboat, a tin-can telephone, a still animal (context: a sea of extracts). You: Compose sad tweets about censorship. Me: Drive parallel […]
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Maureen Seaton: Love in the Time of Snow
Lafayette, Colorado People who live here speak very little French. Lafayette, nous voilà! they sometimes say. Although Lafayette, famous Hero of Two Worlds, (our world et le monde de Lafayette) never skied much past the bunny slope and few remember him slip- ping bourbon in cocoa after snowboarding— in fact, few remember him at all—it’s […]
Maureen Seaton: West Ho 2
I also live in the state of New Mexico, the second sunniest state, and in Florida, the eighth. I live in three places but I don’t have three faces. This is not exactly a metaphor, yet I can see the metaphor coming at me, a satellite in the hard dark sky. Deputy Azevedo placed Dexter’s […]
Maureen Seaton: West Ho
Colorado ties with Texas for 6th sunniest state in the USA. Who cares? The sun’s not racing against itself, why should it? I will not be buried in Elizabethport nor one of the Oranges like the rest of my clan. My body will not be flown home in a crate to be clucked over by […]
Linwood Rumney: Bao Xishin in Beijing
“Long Arms of World’s Tallest Man Saves [sic] Dolphins” USA Today, 12/14/2006 No one knows why both dolphins tried to chew through their tank walls, nor can scientists say why a herdsman from the mountain plains grew so tall, yet when caretakers wrapped towels around the dolphins’ beaks to pry their jaws open and keep […]
Michele Parker Randall: Dividing Line
How we scratch and scrape our fingers to the bone trying to live up to the edge of the border we create this is mine that is yours you can have that you can keep those and rivers become unspoken arrangements of here and there, and broken agreements don’t cross here you can’t have that […]