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Poetry 90
Lisa Andrews: Advantages of Watching a Movie from 1944 at 3:00 in the Afternoon
You have not been born; therefore, none of your friends are sick, dead or in trouble. If the movie ends, it can begin again. What you are watching has the illusion of a beginning, middle and end, but it’s really a loop. If the movie from 1944 is, say, two hours long, you know, in […]
Hala Alyan: Of the MRI Images for My Abdomen
Crazily lit, a swamp of white. So the secret is I glow. Blush with dust and ephemeral lungs. This is my architecture, mineral and air, what I have always suspected: I am clamorous. I am a paper daughter. Theater vessel, ovaries charming as nests. Wraithlike masonry, grainy as sugar. Disrobe me and I am a […]