“Invalidenstrasse” & Other PoemsFrom the Print
And darkness was all around them, as if they were in someone’s mouth…
Fiction & Poetry
The Revendication of Matilde FamularoFrom the Print
And then Ascona delivers her from years of obsolescence…
I Want This AlwaysFrom the Print
As with anything new and unfathomable, they did not know what to do with The Wind Catalog except laugh at it. While they laughed, a new and updated Wind Catalog arrived…
A Collapse of HorsesFrom the Print
They remain both alive and dead, which makes them not quite alive, nor quite dead. And what, in turn, carrying that paradoxical knowledge in your head, does that make you?
The Poets Dwell In MusclememoryFrom the Print
The supreme task of the Poets is the filming of Agony itself, but their secondary task—seeking and refining The Peep-Hole’s glimpse into The Covered Wagons—is by no means unimportant or without significant challenges…
"The Shadow of the Valley" & Other PoemsFrom the Print
The shadow of the valley is a placeholder for the valley, a reminder that a body stands between those stands of bleachers, or this stand of trees or the neighborhood watchers standing around watching birds fly back and forth from their nests to the gardens in every Westwood neighborhood, all the while casting shadows that somehow don’t look like birds but like people wondering…
Henrytown (Part One)From the Print
ALL RIGHT, Joshua Waughop the hunchback dwarf had a real limited set of magical powers he could do. I mean real limited…
On the Moment of ConceptionFrom the Print
We wanted a child but no child came. When Joan suggested the procedure, I wasn’t so sure. It didn’t seem natural…
“On Intimacy”From the Print
A poem and cut-out by Matthea Harvey.
"Edgar Allan Poe" & Other PoemsFrom the Print
Tales: alchemical. / Criticism: polemical. / Subjects: tarn, tomb, raven, Ulalume…
BlackbirdFrom the Print
The girl walked slowly into the park. She had a heavy sack on her back. When she reached the man’s gravestone, she swung the pack from her shoulder…
"The Moral Animals" & Other PoemsFrom the Print
The radio animals travel in lavender clouds. They are always chattering, they are always cold…
A Scorcher, Some Brewskies…How Strange, How SimpleFrom the Print
In June 1989, the worst railroad disaster in Soviet history occurred in the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic near the village of Ulu-Telyak…
The Mary CasketFrom the Print
[FLOOR] In the foyer: a walnut floor. The cracks near the door create a triangular pattern. There are water scars at the foot of the stairs. I scrape cobwebs from the baseboards with a dull knife. … Continued
Three PoemsFrom the Print
… Sunset wears a crown
Like a wound wears a crown.
Even I believe in something
When looking into water at sunset.
Even then the gods are at work.
The eyes see something beautiful beyond,
The shells of snails twirling like a galaxy
Made from a mathematical formula
Like a flame trying to become a rose…