Month: May 2020
Wagner at the Opera
Wagner at the Opera
Continue reading “Wagner at the Opera”Unmeasured Ages
Between two dumpsters in his little cell, he crouched. Shrugged and coughed. The hiatus of night wore off. Unnuzzled into ache. More swarf belched up, nettled in his gorge. He’d been enwombed into this blood-drunk blightedness. Day again—he felt things begin to swivel down a drainhole. Cloudy brainlumps stalled and massed above him. Below, a pigeon hobbled. A backfire sponked. The pigeon flitted away. Soot-motes glinted down a crevice. Nitted feathers traced the eye’s deception, dove-gray to bottlegreen, as it flew beyond the circle of his sight.
Continue reading “Unmeasured Ages”a winking bat
Zodiac Stanzas in a Forest Volcano
Villainous Villanelle
Villainous Villanelle
Continue reading “Villainous Villanelle”How the World Lost the Sea
And the moon called out to the sea to join him in the night, so they may dance among the stars.
Continue reading “How the World Lost the Sea”Essential Identities: An Interview with Fowzia Karimi
the war between memory and dreams – 1939
the war between memory and dreams – 1939