They trade licks like compliments and the horns are scurrying to keep up, like one family scrambling to pay the suddenly-raised rent. Max catches on and tumbles a charging rhinoceros’s heartbeat into the mix. Everyone is seriously playing when Ed Manion’s fingers climb up the neck of his sax as if they were the four […]
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Jeff Tweedy: Prayer #3
I have pondered the long unpublished poems of someone’s only son that dead laugh spun over stone where french-kissed teenaged girls blush and flash teasing tooth-pouts lasting moments less than real hope stirring symphonic shouts again slack in service of dread, mocked continents drifting stems already shooting across time’s seamlessness I have enjoyed these hours […]
Jeff Tweedy: Pure Bug Beauty
I attack with love folded, my wings crawl up to you and your afternoon I’ve been puking you move so slow a steady crushing hand over my body a company in my back hide your soft skin your sorrow in sunshine listening to my eyes they are full of bloodful tunes you learn so slow […]
Tess Taylor: Internal Geography
Cockle-shell shaped, each cavern-window lies in its valley, its low promontory. Whisper. Climb through one. Let yourself into its antechamber. Find how in spirals, its narrow bone-stair ascends in a thin portico. Its walls are taut and translucent as drum skins. Doors quiver lightly as you pass through and enter the rounded, dim vestibule that […]
Abraham Smith: I Heart Amy
sun bridling the runt kitten’s eyes so he shuts his little lines run little lines like water’s own so he shuts his eyes small as quarters wrapped in leaves and he is shutting them to sun has animal dog drank hair all sun is is just lion piss probably this kid on a pine stump […]
Abraham Smith: Buick La Sabre Blues
the others came like slid pawns kings knights effortless everybody from adams to zeimer had a car was the shark or the sea when no wind shatters the car was the shark under that flat glass case Om they had a car that clicked open meant merriment when it shut they had a car that […]