March 14, 2008
Door. Suitcase. Drawer. Blouses and underwear, socks, a skirt, slacks. Handkerchiefs hat shoes. Handkerchief, eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes. Bed. Sheets, pillow. Thread count. Morning light, dawn. Telephone, taxi. Windows and rain. Door, hallway. Staircase, ballister — eighteen steps. Entryway, fish tank. Table and photographs, no dust. No conversation. Doorknob, porch, walkway. Grass, flowers puddles, trees, [...]
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March 4, 2008
August 23rd, 2005 — los hermanos at Los Hermanos My brother and I infiltrated my work today with small adhesive wall hooks and a prepared picture frame. Our destination was the Fish Room, upstairs: My brother carried a camera to document our work. The day was stormy and clouded over, the skies heavy with rain [...]
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March 2, 2008
Salmon is fish for company; Snapper when we eat alone. Spinsters poach perch Slathered with tartar sauce. Bachelors would eat steak; Bachelors eat mostly Hot Pockets. Better weeks see blueberry frozen waffles for Breakfast, or dessert. Some houses fill daily with Smoke; greasy dust Settles on top of the fridge, in cupboard corners, Stays for [...]
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February 22, 2008
“Our candidate’s rival has just been photographed subduing and frolicking with a lion. The image is indelible. Messianic. ‘Lamb Lays Down With The Lion.’ The international press is stunned, the evangelicals are holding prayer meetings. Yesterday Lamb was effeminate and now he’s the damn King of the Jungle. Ladies and gentlemen, if we don’t hit [...]
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February 20, 2008
Red blood Red bones Pink quick, Nails thick and white, polished. Green suit Soft chair Plush beard Lips with crumbs at the corners. From the shadows of the jungle From a window From a plane See the oilfields glowing A bandy-legged union A hammers’ chorus sings “No-one in the dirt alone! In the dirt together! [...]
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February 15, 2008
“Grandpa, he promised.” “I heard him.” “Dad’s not a liar.” “Kevin, he doesn’t make promises like you and I make promises, like grandma makes a promise. Like we should make a promise.” He promises like my dad made promises, like a doctor makes a promise, like an old indian makes promises. George always made the [...]
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