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Issue 80

Siel Ju: Longer

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

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 […]

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Brian Patrick Heston: An Echo

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

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 […]

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J. Matthew Boyleston: Vision After the Sermon

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

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 […]

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Mathias Svalina: The Walrus Dance

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

(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, […]

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Mathias Svalina: Frog in the Sea

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

(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 […]

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Tomaz Salamun: Letters

May 11, 2011 by PBQ

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, […]

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