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"When will it power?" the old woman says...
I will plan better next time.
“Everything Mother made had a name,” Grace said to Sandy.
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About this bracelet, copper,
Boring to anyone expecting always gold, which is a form of being
Chemically challenged—
Don’t think me that sort of
Effing idiot, please—the modernist
Francisco Rebajes learned design from the Gods and I would
Grovel in front of you anytime,
Hoping for appreciation, never mind an
Intensely beribboned box
Just now handed to me while we’re
Knee to knee
Like we’re encapsulated in a very small shovel.
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Delicate beam, thickened
in celebration of an induced
vision, we have seen the barn
on fire, but the barn has never
been on fire. We have seen
the rivers emptied, but the sky
has only grazed our veins,
kissing them with degrees
of warmth. We have, with
each other, been shoulder
blade to shoulder blade
with death, but not once
have we given a name
to that world, the one where
we don’t exist together,
the one where the names we
speak give us no safety at all.
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My grandmother rolls
the hem of her shirt
as she would a piece of lefse,
curling it into a tight cylinder,
exposing her mole-dotted stomach,
a pale, wrinkled mound,
skin hanging in loose piles
collected at her waist.
My mother wears rubber gloves
as she pulls away a moistened strip
of pus-yellowed bandage
like old wallpaper steamed
loose by the heat of gestating cells,
piping a cleaning solution
over the bloodied gouge.
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“Here the vulgar eye will see nothing but Obscurity and will despair considerably.”
–John Dee
So your red powder failed
to turn base metals to gold.
In your balls your angels still
capered, ceding a language
vouchsafed few men. And
late at night that must have com-
forted you, as you swapped
wives, and broke through that
tricky seal, the demarcation be-
tween science and godliness.
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Frost quakes, rare phenomena that simulate earthquakes, rattled hundreds of residents Thursday in Darke and Miami counties in Ohio and Randolph County in Indiana, emergency management officials said.
—Dayton Daily News, February 11, 2011
No, they do not simulate earthquakes at all,
not the kind that rocked Japan to its core,
split wide the ocean floor and shot, fast
as a jet, its deep waters to the closest
and farthest shores, drowning mothers and fathers,
children, cousins, and friends.
... stunted as she was by a dependence on strong religion.
... our shadows dancing on the walls.
Being lonely in the fog is more predictable.
“Can I come in,” she said...
To S. H.
I liked it that she’d called me Michael.
...the dinner that unraveled the rest of their lives.
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The hyper-mediated work of Christopher P. McManus is a barrage of visual information. Paper mache puppets, hand-drawn animations, live action video and computer-generated filters are interwoven into short narrative or interactive pieces; the cumulative effect heightened by the characteristically saturated palette of 8 bit graphics. His over-the-top approach to art reveals a Do-It-Yourself mentality without the ‘homespun’ connotations.
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In the spring of 2012, Brooklyn native Joseph Ficalora brought together a small group of street artists to paint some murals at the intersection of Troutman Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. Having grown up in Bushwick, and still running his family business near this intersection, Ficalora decided that it was time to infuse the drab, industrial blocks that dominate the area with a sense of color and life.
...Notice to Cease in bold, black, capital letters at the top.
...that panoramic city of kaleidoscopic hues.
...a call from your urologist at 10 p.m. is not a delivery of good news.
I pictured her force-feeding me mushy, rotten apples after school...
“They are capitalistic plots of the bourgeoisie designed to make people keep consuming..."
It made sense at the time.
That was the first time I told my mother I wished she would die.