tickertape under flashlight your bruised smile self-help has me eating oranges it’s the French-film phase of my life marbles tossed in a tub sugar smoke wavers all the skulled-in hives of our sweet demons blister forgetfulness the way neon blisters and glossy eyes swim up for words I’m a foolish arrangement of intimacy I’m so […]
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Aaron Belz: SHIFTERS
As Stephanie continues to blow peanuts through her nose, the audience knows all too well what she is up to. One of our children has a tree stump for a head. It’s weird, but she also has little clumps of hair, so that’s reassuring. One sonic night in the back of our sonic house, two […]
Stephanie Anderson: Leek-Picking
Lungfulls of dusk, bandit water hitting our soles. The moon has its halo on. Chainsaw, sing elsewhere: I know this south-facing hillside. Pressure releases my springtime purgative, and I wrap my bulbs in burlap. Dear, I am surrendering my eye patch. Beware what you tell me. I am no good at hushes, edge.
Samuel Amadon: Everyone I Ever Knew From Pittsburgh
One of the Pirates got arrested for tripping a woman in a hot-dog suit as she raced down the first base line in a contest with a man in a sausage suit & a man in a kielbasa suit during some kind of seventh-inning stretch sideshow & it made me think of everyone I had […]
Kazim Ali: Cave
There is a web of blue and green in his dream seedlings of sky and grass thrusting up from the ground suddenly again he’s in music years after his promise to his body was broken and the silver cord severed the spirit sent like a ghost ship to trawl the dream terrain, wrinkled and blue […]