Archive for August, 2008
Thursday, August 21st, 2008
“Homeland in an Old War” by Lianne Spidel
Lianne Spidel HOMELAND IN AN OLD WAR In Burke’s Pharmacy on the corner of Six Mile Road, cartoon faces—Fatso, Ratso and Japso—leer from a garish poster next to a sign with slashing letters: Loose Lips Sink Ships. I ask my mother [...]
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
“Speculum Oris” by Patricia Smith
Patricia Smith SPECULUM ORIS The Speculum Oris was a scissor-shaped instrument inserted into the mouth of a slave to force the jaws open. The crew of slave ships would force captive Africans to eat so that they couldn’t escape servitude by starving themselves to death. the requisite tunnel teeth in the way, tapped out of [...]
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
“County” by Mather Schneider
Mather Schneider COUNTY I was in jail for a month. I was amazed at how much fun my fellow inmates could have. Once a week we were marched down to a room the size of half a basketball court and ordered to exercise. There was a basketball backboard painted on the wall, but no hoop [...]
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
“Amber” by Maya Jewell Zeller
Maya Jewell Zeller AMBER Because you tell me you want to strip at State Line, I tell you how a woman will always feel like a body folded around another body, the layered one she wants to slough off like a heavy shawl, furred skin lifted in alien winds, skeletal, petal-thin. Were you named for [...]
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
TEETH by Aracelis Girmay
Review by Claire Hersom TEETH by Aracelis Girmay Curbstone Press 321 Jackson Street Williamantic, CT 06226 ISBN: 978-1-931896-36-8 109pp., $13.00 www.curbstone.org Aracelis Girmay begins her book with a quote by Elizabeth Alexander, “Many things are true at once,” and this is certainly what the reader will experience within these pages. While it sounds innocuous enough, [...]
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
“Underground” by Lee Rossi
Lee Rossi UNDERGROUND Like a caver edging along a narrow gallery who must stoop, then crawl, then shimmy like his ancestor snake through the narrowest possible hole, I slid my fat boy, weeping now in anticipation, between her butt cheeks and pressed. It was someone else wearing my name, my body. What kind of faith [...]
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
“Man, Boy, Dog” by Sophia Rivkin
Sophia Rivkin MAN, BOY, DOG As a boy he tortured frogs, turtles turned upside down so their feet struggled in the air as they dried out. My friend was his second wife. He told her he ran away because his father beat him, joined the Marines, later became a policeman. They had a dog named [...]
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Thursday, August 14th, 2008
“Richmond Hill” by James Ragan
James Ragan RICHMOND HILL It is my habit to walk a hill until it levels out or until it thinks it has seen enough of sloth and the way I map one foot flat in front of the other, each step shorter, wider than the first, a platypus of sorts, whose rhythm like its waddle [...]
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
“Seven Simple Exercises…” by Tim Poland
Tim Poland SEVEN SIMPLE EXERCISES TO PREPARE FOR THE INEVITABLE ARRIVAL OF GRIEF Walk out of the supermarket and pretend your car has been stolen. Walk home laden with plastic bags full of groceries. Whistle something in ¾ time when the thin plastic handles begin to cut into your fingers. Dig a hole in your [...]
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
THE KNOT by Bruce Spang
Review by Allen Taylor THE KNOT by Bruce Spang Snow Drift Press P.O. Box 205 Bristol, ME 04539 ISBN: 0-9661678-3-X 73 pages, $10 Bruce Spang is gay. It shouldn’t matter, but it does. It matters because he wants you to know, and he goes to great pains to spell it out for you more than [...]
