Christopher Shipman – Fog of Tongues
Fog of Tongues Once upon a time words were beasts. They stalked the things they named until they became those things. Fog stumbled behind. We lived and died in the direction of words— a religion of everything unsaid. Not an image named. Only sun and shadow— that violent blur between moon waxing gibbous moon waning crescent. […]
Christopher Shipman – Fog of Tongues
Fog of Tongues Once upon a time words were beasts. They stalked the things they named until they became those things. Fog stumbled behind. We lived and died in the direction of words— a religion of everything unsaid. Not an image named. Only sun and shadow— that violent blur between moon waxing gibbous moon waning crescent. […]
Christopher Shipman – Time and Place (Unhorsed)
Time and Place (Unhorsed) Most of the kids were home when it happened. All except my father and uncle— the oldest two tasked to help again on their grandfather’s modest farm. Chancellor—the grandfather on their mother’s side— exists only as a name for me: a constellation shipwrecked in a memory the sky can only vaguely […]
Brett Evans’ & Christopher Shipman’s Keats Is Not the Problem, Reviewed by Cindy Hochman
Brett Evans and Christopher Shipman Keats Is Not the Problem Lavender Ink Reviewer: Cindy Hochman A poem should not mean But be. —Archibald MacLeish, “Ars Poetica” When poems come together in a seemingly disparate fusillade, it is incumbent upon the reader to wade through the maze to get to its core. This joyful and macabre […]
