Painted Bride Quarterly

Contributors 90

Jeff Eisenbrey: Love and the Prosthetic Mind

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What blessed skin of algorithim computed the probabilities of her fed subliminalities for face and voice for how she lifts a brow that I would recognize the match Such awesome power to guide her proximity and scent to construct this inevitability O Cloud O Data Praise be for infinite ubiquitous Connection I bought the flowers […]

Roger Camp: Motion Assignment,     La Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas, Madrid

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1/1000 of a sec: t  h e b u ll b ur sts in to th e ri n g                s w ay ing coj on es fr o ze n                               to h is hi n d le g. 1/500 of a sec: Mass ive shoul ders rais e the mon u men tal           hea […]

Lisa Andrews: Advantages of Watching a Movie from     1944 at 3:00 in the Afternoon

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You have not been born; therefore, none of your friends are sick, dead or in trouble. If the movie ends, it can begin again. What you are watching has the illusion of a beginning, middle and end, but it’s really a loop. If the movie from 1944 is, say, two hours long, you know, in […]

Hala Alyan: Of the MRI Images for My Abdomen

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Crazily lit, a swamp of white. So the secret is I glow.           Blush with dust and ephemeral lungs. This is my architecture, mineral and air, what I have always suspected: I am clamorous. I am a paper daughter. Theater vessel, ovaries charming as nests. Wraithlike           masonry, grainy as sugar. Disrobe me and I am a […]

David Moscovich:

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