Archive for October, 2011
Monday, October 31st, 2011
“Dinner With the Blues” by Theodore Worozbyt
Theodore Worozbyt DINNER WITH THE BLUES Just look at these petunias, plush and red as arterial blood, leaves soft as fondled money. Nothing means what we mean it to mean. And that’s the part I can’t ever get right, asking in a true voice for joy, and receiving. Don’t we almost always make the mistake [...]
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Sunday, October 30th, 2011
ORPHEUS ON THE RED LINE by Theodore Deppe
Review by Penelope Moffet ORPHEUS ON THE RED LINE by Theodore Deppe Tupelo Press P.O. Box 1767 North Adams, MA 01247 ISBN 978-1-932195-75-0 2009, 74 pp., $16.95 www.tupelopress.org Chance led me to the haunting and beautiful poems of Theodore Deppe, whose Orpheus on the Red Line was available for adoption at the summer 2011 Rattle [...]
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Saturday, October 29th, 2011
“Stars and Stripes” by Catherine Wiley
Catherine Wiley STARS AND STRIPES I’ve called the cops on him, friendly guy next door who sneaks pork fat to my cat, cookies to my daughter. He tends with the vigilance of love a red van hunkered on the curb, paint flaked and pale U.S. flag sealing the rear window. He sings, then weeps when [...]
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Friday, October 28th, 2011
“Basho, Glimpsed” by Mike White
Mike White BASHO, GLIMPSED miles from anywhere, NV head down walking nothing on his back but the moon –from Rattle #26, Winter 2006
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011
“Happiness” by Mike White
Mike White HAPPINESS fills half a room no one around to lift the thing all those parts after a while you give up even dusting –from Rattle #26, Winter 2006
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
“Examined Life” by Charles Harper Webb
Charles Harper Webb EXAMINED LIFE My skin’s the perfect temperature. My pajamas fit exactly right. No bed-wrinkle makes me shift or twitch. Too bad my bladder is so tight it shoves me out of bed. When I get back, sleep’s water-jar still barely balanced on my head, my wife’s coming awake the way a coral [...]
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
HOODWINKED by David Hernandez
Review by Alejandro Escude HOODWINKED by David Hernandez Sarabande Books 2234 Dundee Road, Suite 200 Louisville, KY 40205 ISBN 13 978-1-932511-96-3 2011, 75 pp., $14.95 www.sarabandebooks.org I first came across the work of David Hernandez when I read “Mosul” in The Kenyon Review. I got that weird pang of jealousy mixed with awe every poet [...]
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Monday, October 24th, 2011
“The Thing in Question” by Thom Ward
Thom Ward THE THING IN QUESTION From the start He-Got-It got it, perhaps because he came from a long line of indefinite pronouns. Good morning, sweetie, said his Mother, I-Take-It-You-Agree. Darling, even though you get it, I will get it for you the rest of your life. Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, said his father, You-Can’t-Avoid-It. [...]
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Sunday, October 23rd, 2011
“The Clinic” by Martin Vest
Martin Vest THE CLINIC They come smelling like the inside of an ear like government curtains like a flagpole in the dead of winter with one leg with cancer with court orders with lies they [...]
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
“Sleep Over” by Jeff Vande Zande
Jeff Vande Zande SLEEP OVER It’s the first time he doesn’t want us around. They disappear upstairs with sleeping bags, pillows, a miniature suitcase, like bonsai luggage. They close the door. My wife and I aren’t sure what to do with our sudden personal space. We drift around the empty downstairs. I go to the [...]
