desire, economy of a real romantic rule OR without standard mathematical deviation, which encompasses occurrences falling from the average or the norm OR point values assigned for current romantic prospects OR sexual currency OR “the combined total amount of anything” [CASE, TIFFANY 50] + [BOND, JAMES –19] = 31 / 24 [chapters to climax, inevitable […]
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Michelle Disler: Forgetting [BOND, James]
contingent, like acts of mastery, on beauty, champagne, empty magazine, loaded magazine, rare blood type, her broken nose, killing in cold blood, license to kill, limits to a man’s courage ON TOP OF death-cure, voodoo curse, vomiting on the beach, violet hour, velvet dress drawn tightly across the breasts, the saying of unpleasant things on […]
Katherine Dimma: Lay a Cross Upon my Eyes
This solitude cannot be overcome – that is the first truth. It is the beginning. There is in my eye a greater grave of two in a silent house. The self must hold – no other can know its secrets. Sex plays havoc, like a siren, says, you and he will tame the sea – […]
Katherine Dimma: Driven to Distances
Blindly asking the stars to name a destiny for her, she holds their orphaned secrets in a little tin box at the back of her tongue. In the land of absent prophets, there are red-stung poppies counting on no one – ferrying the living back to the dead. Given the swords, given the perpetual counting […]
Jeffrey Conway, D.A. Powell, David Trinidad: Canto One
from Descent of the Dolls Seated in a dark movie theatre, their view partially blocked by a mysterious woman in a black wig, Jeffery Conway, D.A. Powell, and David Trinidad are visited by Frank O’Hara, Anne Sexton, and Tennessee Williams, who offer to guide them through this camp classic. Weird sisters, the way is dark, […]
Dick Bentley: Newspaper
Open to me, says the world, speaking in such clear-cut sentences that I see beauty in its style. I stand at the doorway, Ridiculous in pajamas. What others find in art, I find in news. What others find in human love, I find in news, so very trouble-free. Sunrise, a smaze of dampness over every […]