Archive for July, 2010
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
“The Wild Animal” by Michael Hettich
Michael Hettich THE WILD ANIMAL They knock over everything, boys and girls, hardly more than instruments waiting to be played; hardly more than rivers waiting to be navigated, waiting to be damned; hardly more than songs waiting for their harmony; hardly more than eyes. I lived inside the hope of rain, she says. I lived [...]
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
SIX LIPS by Penelope Scambly Schott
Review by Julie L. Moore SIX LIPS by Penelope Scambly Schott Mayapple Press 408 N. Lincoln Bay City, MI 48708 ISBN 978-0-932412-843 2009, 79 pp., $15.95 www.mayapplepress.com Penelope Scambly Schott’s most recent book of poems, Six Lips, is both poetry of the body and poetry of the body’s shadow, otherworldly and wildly imaginative. In three [...]
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
“Unholy Sonnet Number One” by Mollycat Jones
Mollycat Jones UNHOLY SONNET NUMBER ONE My bowl of lamb and gravy from the can appears each morning when at last you rise. An hour ago I batted at your eyes, and it’s been two since first the birds began. My brother has already fouled the pan; you slept right through his scratching and his [...]
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
“Crabs” by Mary-Lou Brockett-Devine
Mary-Lou Brockett-Devine CRABS The only thing I know is they can crawl, swim, and bite like hell. —“Chas” Howard in Beautiful Swimmers And this, then, is the wonder of evolution: crabs cannot fly. Imagine them with their five pairs of legs (eight for walking, two adapted into claws) hovering over your family picnic, piercing the [...]
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Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
“Happiness Severity Index” by Rebekah Remington
Rebekah Remington HAPPINESS SEVERITY INDEX Though in the lower standard deviation, I fall, the statistician says, within the normal range of happiness. Therefore, no drugs today. What about tomorrow? What if doodling stars isn’t enough? Will I be asked to color the rainbow one more time? Name three wishes that might come true? List everything [...]
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
“Exceptions with the Sloughing Off” by Lilah Hegnauer
Lilah Hegnauer EXCEPTIONS WITH THE SLOUGHING OFF Never before had we been so angular and ready and situated, never in the same way watching and watching under the eaves wrapped in aluminum, paper flowers, your ease with the Times. For thirty minutes: no more, I took your corner tightly and felt like a criminal undone [...]
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Monday, July 5th, 2010
THE RESTORED NEW TESTAMENT translated by Willis Barnstone
Review by Art Beck THE RESTORED NEW TESTAMENT: A NEW TRANSLATION WITH COMMENTARY, INCLUDING THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS THOMAS, MARY AND JUDAS translated by Willis Barnstone W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 500 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10110 ISBN 978-0-393-06493-3 2009, 1504 pp., $59.95 www.wwnorton.com The Crucified Rabbi and the Unconquered Sun On Parker [...]
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Sunday, July 4th, 2010
“The Heart, Like A Bocce Ball” by Luke Johnson
Luke Johnson THE HEART, LIKE A BOCCE BALL The jack sits low in the grass. We’re dead drunk, cannonballing across the lawn, gouging handful divots, each of us still nursing a tumbler of scotch brought home from the wake. We sons and brothers and cousins. I spin my ice and let that black-tie loosening buzz [...]
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
“Silence Took My Tongue When My Brother Went” by Michelle Bitting
Michelle Bitting SILENCE TOOK MY TONGUE WHEN MY BROTHER WENT Silence took my tongue when my brother went away, now words are skittery rabbits: soft, furry lumps huddled in my throat’s dry den. I wait for him at breakfast where the clock clicks its mean teeth, wait for him to tease me, please Lord, anything, [...]
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
“Living Large” by Peter Harris
Peter Harris LIVING LARGE The father’s princess was ready to quit his palace with only a ribbed pullover, drawstring pants, three-quarters of a degree, and a Peruvian shawl, leaving behind his blundering ballet of lasso love, also her hoop earrings, her made-up mom, and 20 eloquent pairs of trainers, pumps and clogs, leaving behind the [...]
