Tag Archives: Nonfiction

[rises] heat  colorless rises What I’m Reading: If the laws of science are suspended at the beginning of the universe, might not they fail at other times also? — Steven Hawking / The Universe in a Nutshell

palimpsests loquated i lost all my teeth after i registered at the community college • the dictum was flounced airs and a lack of calcium • everly the dredge came by the apartment bearing good tidings and tarwater • mighty … Continue reading →

shower dream i dont know who everybody is im taking a showerand everybody keeps opening the doorevery time they open the doorthe water pressure drops im taking this showereverybody opens the doorthe water pressure drops i scream at everybody to … Continue reading →

fully illuminated winter darkness on short day spleenlight the candles in the gloamingring the cider press with dead liliesthrottle your fully illuminated deathsfestoon with snacks + libation i come to you pixilatedof courseoff-courseto see you off to a new yearo … Continue reading →

Disjunctions Ruled  I am a postmodern matador of my heterodoxy, sequenced by a semiconductor, self-referential, lady apparatchik thereof: a relativist, and at once a minimalist without a single “bad hairpiece day” in the last 30 minutes. Here’s where I’m going … Continue reading →

Memorable Stuff I Read This Week Yellow rain. Biological warfare. The Hmong. Erasure of a people’s history, negation of trauma. Shadows and truth. First came the wars that led to other wars that led to the Secret War that became … Continue reading →

sturgeon metaphysics at heaven’s gate …sturgeon have been on earth for millionsof years in the chillcaspian sea… buti’m looking for redemptionin the butt end of comet hale-bopp emaciatedglue-eyed to the telescope dioptersharp-eyed for a peek of e.t.come to take me … Continue reading →

i, alight i alight on the notion of writing to the title—a string of twinkle lights—at this precarious height fill the light spaces with dark marksreserve hope for no oneeveryone you know will die you will diethe die cast (so … Continue reading →

Your Ten Favorite Holiday Memories (redux) 1. You are playing mechanized baseball: a ball bearing is pitched out of a hole, and the bat is a pinball flipper — and fwap! The ball bearing falls into one of a series … Continue reading →