Vol. 2, No. 2 Contents

The apartment is 450 square feet but isn't square at all. We learned to cut corners…

He posed and I photographed him in our hallway on Mercer Street, so pleased by the fact that we had one. The microwave was shiny and white and built in under the counter, suspended, with bright blue numbers that kept time.

Without with I would still be

in the corner lamenting over the insignificances.

Talking causally to my artificial curios…

Cousins, strange in serious suits,

fold their hands on their laps

and sing old, familiar songs.

The camera stores the hours when

everything returns to the right hand,

view finder matching patterns

of parents and children, shutter…

Papers exchanged hands in the garden

at dawn, this much is known. The brotherhood

had gathered in the atrium a few days earlier.

Once again, we find

ourselves under the

anarchy of starlight…

The bamboo reed divides

the evening into nine girls

practicing the dance of Changgu.

Mitzi's eyes were large as nipples

in an ice storm, her lips quivery and thin

after the Russian steppe peasant fashion.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev's brain weighed 4.8 pounds

on the cutting room table, a Guinness record.

Human penises, erect, expand to five times their size.

…though only through language

communion exists, what language

is thought, language is thought