Elegy for Norman Dubie During sex, I often think of a fact I heard, which is that during sex, our impulse toward disgust is diminished. I think this in order […]
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with bump & grind bass lines and dancing dudes in harmony serenading in the rain or inside a car heading to a house party and there are always choreographed men […]
Read MoreFor Beverly Buchanan (1940–2015) Beverly can recite the Emancipation Proclamation using her cane for punctuation. She will thrust her cane at any jackass nearby and he’ll fall back […]
Read MoreAfter Lana Del Rey Our lives wouldn’t need to be sweet if we could be chaste, and solitary, and feel complete. We could stay safe in our homes, and […]
Read MoreNaive Dark blue clouds dot a pale blue sky in that false way that signifies beauty. My brain topples over like the red brick house in my hometown: there […]
Read MoreExcept More conscious each day of each everyday, I pray I will release them more easily than I released the kind of loving that is only returned […]
Read MoreFirst Epitaph & VIII, translated from the Spanish by Jesse Lee Kercheval and Jeannine Marie Pitas
First Epitaph And if it weren’t for this cold night of barking, and if it weren’t for the jarring smoke of the cigar, if it weren’t for the darkness […]
Read MoreAs a Jewl of Gold in a Swine’s Snout Examination of Ann Pudeator, Murthering Midwiffe—July 2, 1692 Birth is a resky acte froght w’th apprehenson. I have bond this […]
Read Morewyoming in this episode i play a springboard diver in a slick production selling flight. despite many vertical rips—no splash, sleek mane when surfacing—they want another take. works […]
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