When I think of how it began, I enter an endless regression— before the visit to the counselor’s office, blood draw, awful flu in May, before I let Tony fuck me raw to say I was sorry. But that wasn’t the first time. The first time I got fucked was in 1984. We already knew […]
Poetry 69
Leigh Anne: The Finale of Be
-to Wallace Stevens I. would be the end of endings and beginnings when the heart is a trout pushing upstream pre-life (life) post-life (life) pre-life (life) an eternity granted to be alright the walls holding in the olympic-sized blue of my self would crack-crumble and out go the memorable memories as a child I thought […]
Shafer Hall: Mina Loy
Here lies my Renee Lenore breathing All over my pillow; woman poets make her pink. I blush when I think about how we educated each Other in: friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or untonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through close approach of the organs of articulation, […]
Jen Knox: Kisses Sweeter Than Wine
Apparently, all those margaritas and cocaine Have saddled me with a profound bout of diarrhea. Two days on, and the illness shows no sign of waning. Each whale-like moo that emanates from my black, Empty abdomen fertilizes the seeds of my disconcertment. Vicodin would temporarily assuage the situation, But for how long, and what of […]
Wayne Koestenbaum: Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films
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Daniel Nester: Poems from God Save My Queen
Flash Gordon (Soundtrack) In The Space Capsule (The Love Theme) They look at each other. Your very own roustabout*, a cosmos, a Kosmos bullied by timpani. Remember Flash and that Chams du Baron, sweating, bandanae around his neck? An animal’s glance, so diagonal and quizzical in its wonder at the closing dumpster walls. Porno and […]