Works of Mercy
6 August 2007
Vol. 7, No. 2
poetry, prose poem
The fisherman threatens to climb philodendrons with daisy cutters. Threatens to mount his motorbike barebacked. Ursula emerges from behind stacked bricks. Like hyenas they thrash in ghetto-rage.
Aphorisms for Frida Kahlo
4 August 2007
Vol. 7, No. 2
poetry, prose poem
In 1972 Stephen Hawking postulated the existence of bone-crushing black holes where nothing could escape, not even a gizzard, or light. Hawking has changed his mind. Now he proposes that information can escape, a radiation of a peculiar sort, one that can transmit bursts of black light like a Britney Spears concert.
Why?
2 August 2007
Vol. 7, No. 2
poetry, prose poem
Because his penis was there in my hand as a butter knife would have been in my hand if I was about to butter bread. I wasn't about to butter bread or say no but I was happy nonetheless. It was a little weapon, a toy.
What was it like?
It was like he wouldn't listen to me but listening to me the way our father would listen to us with his eyes closed nodding yay ya, yay ya.
T. Williams Talks to Birds or I'm Talking to Birds
15 November 2005
Vol. 5, No. 3
poetry, prose poem
Tennessee Williams once visited Manhattan where he celebrated the Broadway success of A Streetcar Named Desire with a leather purse.
In Toto
13 November 2005
Vol. 5, No. 3
poetry
Each new day planned another. It was always a cool evening, bones brittle as toothpicks.