a second can begin in the middle of another second a life can live inside of another life we make nests inside the homes we make inside of houses cities inside of cities I use a small book as a bookmark an infinite loop I carry with me you can look at them eating one […]
Issue 94
Edward O’Dwyer: Grand
I hope I’ll never have to suffer the pain of being grand. I mean of being really grand, not that grand we say we are when we mean we’re really not, and then others agree they too are grand when they are so far from it. I imagine famished bodies in the wasteland bogs of […]
Edward O’Dwyer: The Death of Sean Bean
“Stop killing Sean Bean!!!” Youtube comment on Sean Bean death reel Today you’ll go to the cinema, leave at a loss to explain why you live in a world where, even in a movie, Sean Bean always dies. Like last time, all the heroic promise insinuated by a few generous, never overblown moments snuffed out […]
Jen Karetnick: The Physics of Falling Mangoes
If a Haden mango, full with sun, and an ovoid Irwin, that ornament of dawn, drop at the same time from panicles equivalent in height, will they accelerate identically despite degrees of heft, of maturity, the knowledge of their own ripeness? Physics says yes, despite mass, even if it’s a late-season Beverly, still green, set […]
Mara Jebsen: Come Undone
it is a night for nostalgia and hectic forecasts. i didn’t burn the dinner and the sun went down just the same, like an egg, like an egg poached in smoke and i never saw the news. the past, like a foreign city beckons in a mirror—high hope and bright light— and i wonder if […]
Lynn Hoffman: from the barbershop, carmello
from the barbershop, carmello sees winter boots squeaking south on passyunk near broad sun-low, gold and cold. from the second chair, carmello hears a ring, a barber’s ‘howaya’ and something about shoveling the goddamn cold off the car’s bald spot from twenty-two years ago, carmello hears a crank and clank of metal slides sees the […]