Archive for April, 2010
Friday, April 9th, 2010
“Leaves of Grass/Suicide/Psychic Hotlines” by Cathryn Cofell
Cathryn Cofell LEAVES OF GRASS/SUICIDE/PSYCHIC HOTLINES I, now thirty-.seven years old to perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death. –Walt Whitman, Song of Myself The gift I gave came back at me like [...]
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
“Convert’s Lament” by Laura Van Prooyen
Laura Van Prooyen CONVERT’S LAMENT Oh Joseph. I never had a question about you getting some love. Mary either, for that matter. But now I hear there’s perpetual virginity, which might be just fine for the Blessed Mother. She’s been rewarded with altars, statues, mudflaps and tattoos. But who’s tattooing you? There are few requests [...]
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Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
“The Eskimo’s Guide to Fine Dining” by Andrew Vinstra
Andrew Vinstra THE ESKIMO’S GUIDE TO FINE DINING Here I sit in my ice castle, the vast white space of my throne room, my igloo, not even so much as a whale bone to pick through my cavernous teeth. I sit here surrounded in blubber in the house I ate my way through room by [...]
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Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
“Self-Portrait: November” by Sandy Longhorn
Sandy Longhorn SELF-PORTRAIT: NOVEMBER Walking home in the first hard freeze with ice building in layers on the slick surfaces of roads and bridges, my breath plumes before me and I cough on the brittle air. I tread on the safer grass-lined ditch, the creek bank’s thick mud, stiff like setting plaster. The sun fades [...]
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Monday, April 5th, 2010
OMNIVORE by Allan Peterson
Review by Marilyn McCabe OMNIVORE by Allan Peterson Bateau Press P.O. Box 1584, Northampton, MA 01061-1584 ISBN 978-0-9795325-2-8 2009, 20 pp., $12.00 www.bateaupress.org I think what caught my eye first in Allan Peterson’s petite chapbook Omnivore, winner of the Bateau Press BOOM chapbook prize, was this line: “Offshore water flashed like the button king/gizzard sheen [...]
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Sunday, April 4th, 2010
“A Country in Our Hearts” by Fred Voss
Fred Voss A COUNTRY IN OUR HEARTS On machine #5 Juan forgets and says, “Thank you, my friend!” with genuine unashamed child-like joy when I come over unasked to grab one end of the heavy vise and help him lift it onto his machine table. Then he remembers and looks around himself to see if [...]
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Saturday, April 3rd, 2010
“Castlekeep” by Philip A Waterhouse
Philip A Waterhouse CASTLEKEEP Ladies casual dresswear color catalogues. Appear mysteriously. On doorsteps. In mail boxes. Of (un)attached males. Caftan prints, tantalizing graceful Levalloisian flow with tender forefront shirring and dainty Capello basting accentuate the subtlety—to paraphrase catalogue sales copy that impels studs to study photos of a live model—of enticing three-quarter-length loose bell sleeves, [...]
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Friday, April 2nd, 2010
“Fish Blood and Diesel Fuel” by Anne Winter
Anne Winter FISH BLOOD AND DIESEL FUEL The skipper, pale-haired-anglo-freckled, a real live red-neck put a big salmon plug hook through his thumb while they were in the middle of trolling the biggest humpy catch of the season way off Nootka and when he pulled out the hook it took most of the thumb with [...]
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010
“Lament: I Am Implication” by Lynne Thompson
Lynne Thompson LAMENT: I AM IMPLICATION— an afterthought, meat gone rancid, Anna Karenina in blue hose, ephemerata. Every need [...]
