Morning is too much after the hurricane, umbrella bones scattered, sun baking wet sidewalk, my mouth sour with alcohol, feeling a little sorry for myself. I put, take a shower on my list of things to do. Brush my teeth. Get over big love. My body is shaking. I want to make a sound, something […]
Ada Limón
Ada Limón: Spanish Lessons
I can understand it if I try hard enough, All the twisted R’s and accents like birds in flight The tongue twirling in fisted knots tough As the pachuco on the corner trying to get right Calling out to the ladies in deep whistles and growls, “Hola baby,” and then as if he were wounded […]
Shafer Hall & Ada Limon: What the Back of the Eyepatch Looks Like
Sometimes a light comes out of nowhere which turns the nowhere into a somewhere which makes the sea into a room and my brain stops hurting – first time in days. Walls and Walls! So nice to be held in as opposed to held out or held up, pirates like most wild animals crave a […]
Shafer Hall & Ada Limon: An Unlikely Code For Likely Pirates
Establishing credibility with our sails isn’t our game, we’re more the type to float below the radar like the celocanth and then eat your brains like the celocanth and hang our actions out to carry us away. The universe achieves balance this way, and faith rebuilds with tiny victories over itself; we plunder only what […]
Ada Limón: There is a Woman at the Hardware Store
He thinks of his childhood like Greece white empty rooms shot through with veins of blue sky archways always leading somewhere, always following the cat. He has never been to Greece although he returns there whenever she asks him a direct question, his mind going white as bone. “Would you like your receipt?” And he […]
Ada Limón: Our Hero Confronts His Gray Suit
His suit that morning said, “I don’t appreciate this constant coming and going of you.” “Let us just make it to the breakfast table and then we can argue about what comes next,” the man answered the suit. During breakfast the suit ate more than usual and made the man feel uncomfortable in the slacks. […]