I also live in the state of New Mexico, the second sunniest state, and in Florida, the eighth. I live in three places but I don’t have three faces. This is not exactly a metaphor, yet I can see the metaphor coming at me, a satellite in the hard dark sky. Deputy Azevedo placed Dexter’s […]
Poetry 94
Maureen Seaton: West Ho
Colorado ties with Texas for 6th sunniest state in the USA. Who cares? The sun’s not racing against itself, why should it? I will not be buried in Elizabethport nor one of the Oranges like the rest of my clan. My body will not be flown home in a crate to be clucked over by […]
Linwood Rumney: Bao Xishin in Beijing
“Long Arms of World’s Tallest Man Saves [sic] Dolphins” USA Today, 12/14/2006 No one knows why both dolphins tried to chew through their tank walls, nor can scientists say why a herdsman from the mountain plains grew so tall, yet when caretakers wrapped towels around the dolphins’ beaks to pry their jaws open and keep […]
Michele Parker Randall: Dividing Line
How we scratch and scrape our fingers to the bone trying to live up to the edge of the border we create this is mine that is yours you can have that you can keep those and rivers become unspoken arrangements of here and there, and broken agreements don’t cross here you can’t have that […]
Timothy Otte Heatherwalker (Claim a Sky Inside the Grasses)
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 […]
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 […]