Jeffrey Little – Cognitive Promiscuity: The Undocumented Gunshot Blues
Cognitive Promiscuity: The Undocumented Gunshot Blues I am walking to the reservoir in Newark Delaware where the ghosts of passenger pigeons assemble in mutable clumps and have flocked here to reveal something I’ve long suspected but could never admit. In my left hand I’m carrying a photograph of myself sitting beside a giant mushroom on […]
John Bradley – The Face of Charles Darwin As Seen on a Nuclear Reactor Cooling Tower As Seen by a Firefly As Seen by Cornelia Hesse-Honegger
The Face of Charles Darwin As Seen on a Nuclear Reactor Cooling Tower As Seen by a Firefly As Seen by Cornelia Hesse-Honegger Is it is true, Cornelia, when your son was born the doctor came to you with a charcoal drawing of a baby, old as Galileo, with an ashen club foot? And you […]
Sarah Snyder – Go Count the First Seven Stars
Go Count the First Seven Stars Go count the first seven stars you see—then come tell me. And off the boy ran into twilight, tilted his small head back and began, One. Two…three. Waiting for four more to reach out of the darkening. So much is never seen, nor allowed in Rwanda: plastic bags— you […]
Jeannine Hall Gailey – Post-Apocalypse Postcard from the Viceroy Hotel, Santa Monica
Post-Apocalypse Postcard from the Viceroy Hotel, Santa Monica I woke up and laid out by the pool, still blue and inviting, the swim-up bar emptied of everything but ice buckets. Oh, for ice. There was something falling from the sky, tiny and white, but it wasn’t snow. It was ashes. Ashes of what? The roses […]
Carl Boon – Borges
Borges What mind could make things happen here—on the plains of Uruguay, boys with blades tracing squares in the dirt, women whose skin found mountains to fade to? Myth, objects gathered on roadsides: a coin, a note in Persian, the idea you lost on the way to Buenos Aires ten thousand years ago. Later I […]
