Archive for February, 2009
Saturday, February 28th, 2009
“The Loss of Lemons” by Chrys Tobey
Chrys Tobey THE LOSS OF LEMONS A woman had lemons in her head. It’s not that she wanted to make lemonade. She simply had lemons in her head. She could feel them in her head the same way she could feel a star dying. The woman insisted on getting an MRI. She wanted to see [...]
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
“The Lover of Stone” by J.R. Solonche
J.R. Solonche THE LOVER OF STONE The lover of stone must be old, for there is no such thing as a young stone. The lover of stone must be strong, for he must be able to climb up the mountain and the summit of the mountain to find the beginning of stone. And he must [...]
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
“LOOKING AT A PHOTOGRAPH FROM WAR TIME…” by Timothy David Shea
Timothy David Shea LOOKING AT A PHOTOGRAPH FROMWAR TIME I WILL BE THE NEXT HIT BY FIRE There is the one with his boot sole propped on a frame of sandbags, and the one holding a baseball glove, lips puckered in conversation. There is the [...]
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Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
ALSO IN ARCADIA by Andrew Mulvania
Review by Ted Gilley ALSO IN ARCADIA by Andrew Mulvania Backwaters Press 3502 North 52nd St. Omaha, NE 68104-3506 ISBN 978-0-9816936-3-7 2008, 67 pp., $16.00 http://thebackwaterspress.com/ Andrew Mulvania’s present-day Arcadia lies in the southern part of the United States, just as the Arcadia of legend lay, similarly isolated, in the Peloponnesus of Greece. Rural Missouri, [...]
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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
“Sonnets to Orpheus: Part 2 #13″ by Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke SONNETS TO ORPHEUS: PART 2 #13 Anticipate each goodbye, as if it were already behind you like a winter that’s passed. Because underneath these winters is such an interminable winter, that only by hibernating can your heart survive. Always be dead in Eurydice—climb out the way a singer climbs, in a voice [...]
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Monday, February 23rd, 2009
“Demolition Derby” by Sherman Pearl
Sherman Pearl DEMOLITION DERBY There’s an innocence in these surrogate battles between cars—all the bodies are fortified to withstand the crashes, all the doomed are made of metal. Aggressors seem to comfort their victims, backing away almost ruefully after smashing them into nightmare versions of the showroom beauties they’d been. There is grace in how [...]
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Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
“Every Drunk Has a Passport” by Jason Nemec
Jason Nemec EVERY DRUNK HAS A PASSPORT Here they come, stumbling down the sidewalk two by two, masses of hammered college kids puked out of the bars on the Tennessee Street strip after last call. And it’s not the sight of them that gets to me as I stand in my boxer shorts watching their bumbling migration from the balcony of my apartment; it’s the sound as I’m yearning to sleep off the iron-legged stress of a hard-fought double at the restaurant, the fuck yous yelled at the top of smoked-through lungs, the punches itching to be thrown, revving up in the glamour boys’ well-exercised beer muscles, the shrill come-ons screaming from deep in the exposed chests of scores of girls who received their breasts as high school graduation presents, Whoo! and Yeah-uh! cutting through the night air overtop the off-tempo rhythm of high heels on asphalt. If I had to pick a mascot from the entire mad cacophony to represent this species born unto me at 2 A.M. and set to die off by 2:30 every Thursday through Saturday, it would have to be this beanpole of a kid scarecrowed between [...]
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Saturday, February 21st, 2009
“Repairman” by Dave Morrison
Dave Morrison REPAIRMAN The parents had called him to take a look at their twelve-year-old, Mikey, because the school had said that unless something was done he could not ride the bus anymore. He’s asleep? asked the Repairman. The father nodded, Yes, he sleeps like a log. The Repairman gently removed the top of the [...]
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
WAKING STONE by Carole Simmons Oles
Review by Brian Spears WAKING STONE by Carole Simmons Oles The University of Arkansas Press 201 Ozark Avenue Fayetteville AR 72701 ISBN 1-55728-825-9 2006, 99 pp., $16.00 www.uapress.com When I was in my first year of the MFA program at the University of Arkansas, the visiting poet Dave Smith said of one of my poems, [...]
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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
“On Attending a High School Graduation” by Joe Mills
Joe Mills ON ATTENDING A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION Looking at them clustered together in their black robes, waiting for their names to be called, waiting to become more distinct versions of themselves, I whisper véraison and if it makes you uncomfortable to consider these boys and girls in terms of ripeness, the fullness of fruit [...]
