The clear truth of the moment is that it’ll pass. Any sort of desire or impetus or agency or ability of emotional closeness you feel right now – that’ll pass. What’s left’ll be the vague sense that you wanted something that may or may no longer be worth the effort. If it helps picture the […]
Issue 80
Brian Patrick Heston: An Echo
How you once nursed your Guinness listening to the Phillies on the scarred mahogany radio you bought before the war: speakeasy days before gram, asbestos days on ships rickety as planets before the old house of Christmases and Easters. In my dream you stroll ungodly hours, a broken lamp buzzing as a boy forms from […]
J. Matthew Boyleston: Vision After the Sermon
Gauguin From the outside looking in, the ground is a splotched fingerprint in blood and the curved bar of women bent like Zs is the windowsill you look through into a room that bursts with shining things. You see beyond a land of black and white to a place where the cost of color will […]
Mathias Svalina: The Walrus Dance
(for 3 or more players) One child is the Walrus. One child is the Trainer. The other children sit in the sun fanning their programs to cool their sun-flushed faces. A circle is drawn in chalk on the asphalt & the Walrus lies facedown inside a circle. The Trainer commands the Walrus to turn over, […]
Mathias Svalina: Frog in the Sea
(for 6 or more players) One child is the Frog. He sits cross-legged in a circle about 3 feet in diameter. The other children tease him by calling: Frog in the Sea Can’t catch me They step in & out of the circle, teasing & poking the Frog. They poke him with sticks & they […]
Tomaz Salamun: Letters
I Love, spinning like geometry, where are you? Should I really believe in myself, as—you say—you do, you, the tree with tenants, soil with hoops, earth with rain? I am not that perfect, also animals, copulating, are not. The dragon with the dragon, the sheep with the sheep, the light with shadow. And after all, […]