Month: January 2017

Poetry

FLORIDA MAN SAYS HE HAD NO IDEA BEATING AN ALLIGATOR TO DEATH WAS ILLEGAL by Yann Rousselot

I do not recognize this court. Gatorland is not a sovereign nation. I saw the last orca die at Sea World, I know the grim reality of sunshine. Place the oxygen mask on yourself first. Turbulence is part of the process. Engine failure is also part of the process. Child-proof, user-friendly, they said. This isn’t the Ark, it’s a flying rock. This exceeds break-neck. This … Continue reading FLORIDA MAN SAYS HE HAD NO IDEA BEATING AN ALLIGATOR TO DEATH WAS ILLEGAL by Yann Rousselot

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Poetry

FLORIDA MAN IGNORES WARNING AND IS STRUCK AND KILLED BY TRAIN by Yann Rousselot

The sky is different here— on the equator everything looks big as a planet. I’ll be waiting at the tracks, out back, our secret place where clouds stack thicker than water, sky milk-heavy over dark pine teeth. Metal on the wind like a rolling moan, scrape of steel, rust in the air. Lungs pull more, oxygen-red, down here on the equator. Nerves tighten and thrum. … Continue reading FLORIDA MAN IGNORES WARNING AND IS STRUCK AND KILLED BY TRAIN by Yann Rousselot

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Criticism

It’s “1984” All Over Again

Over the weekend that marked the inauguration of one, “President” Trump, a surge in the sales of George Orwell’s cautionary, prophetic classic, 1984, occurred. Written in 1949, still rather freshly after the end of World War II, the novel tells of a dystopian society set in, obviously, 1984. Though Orwell was slightly off the mark in what would happen that year, he was accurate in … Continue reading It’s “1984” All Over Again

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Poetry

dog says, we’re stronger in packs by Jacklyn Janeksela

go to the nearest cemetery/pluck flowers, unearth blades of grass from their roots, collect tree branches/from the graves of women/sew it all together with strands of your own hair/set it on fire under a new moon/watch the moon laugh/watch the moon headless, faceless/gouged she breeds bird egg and seed/black, she silos flight go to the nearest cemetery/collect dirt in glass jars/care for them like honey/label … Continue reading dog says, we’re stronger in packs by Jacklyn Janeksela

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Poetry

Manhattan, and elsewhere by Larry Jones

That line of Diane Keaton’s, “A handful of poems, is that all, what a life is worth?” Manhattan?  Wherefore Kenneth? Wherever Frank, Ashbery Park? Had that indeed been the line, verbatim?  Last binding word, worth, my middle name?  What to make of her, my own, birth- date, zero one, zero five …? glare of red lights flashing, blare of sirens wailing, a fire engine, then … Continue reading Manhattan, and elsewhere by Larry Jones

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Fiction

Once Referred to As A Hymn by Rich Ives

If the world doesn’t really exist, I reasoned, then neither do I. I don’t have to do anything. But if the world is purely energy and thought is energy and receiving thought is more energy, if you’re receiving this, then I have to think about doing something in order to think about not having to do anything, and right at that moment I don’t want … Continue reading Once Referred to As A Hymn by Rich Ives

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