Lawdenmarc Decamora – Pattaya, after which is stereographic plurality
Pattaya, after which is stereographic plurality Based on what I saw today in the reflection of tall trees on the river, there’s a Barthesian notion of swirling things trying to drink the water, their spreading tension the surface of claw-prints and misty roars in silver. I tried to identify them in their uniform art of […]
Robert Hill Long – The Hummingbird
The Hummingbird How the hummingbird got into the attic he didn’t know. But the single note that had vibrated all day through the ceiling he understood now. All day at the desk rewriting a single foolish page, he’d mistaken that high vibrato for something wrong in his skull—onset of tinnitus, a Cassandra vein in his […]
Sara Burant – A noticeable degree
A noticeable degree Time accelerates while I shrink, morning once more a giant’s house I enter, unsure what I’ve come looking for. In a photo I find online, Svante Arrhenius has the bearing of a furnace. Using slide rule, pen, ink and paper made from boreal trees, he performed the “complex, tedious calculations” demonstrating the […]
Kerrin Sharpe – a retired pilot flies asleep
a retired pilot flies asleep his pockets fill with mountains and bad weather everything’s falling sons daughters landing gear home he shouts to remember the word his house is off site off where? he’ll never fit back on earth St Kilda pray for him St Clair pray for him he ditches the plane he blinks […]
Mónica Gomery – We thanked her by digging a hole
We thanked her by digging a hole It is how we say thanks. The hole had four corners and its walls were built of earth-psalm, thirsting. Her sister and her lover dragged out two boxes of books by the hole and the rabbi told us, reach in, pull out a book. The books smelled sour […]
