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I WONDER
I WONDER (II) If all new believers have to go through that trial in the desert. If I would have been better off if I had gone back. If it was all in my head. If just in the end
Print Edition
everything I write, I write it for you. pineapples, toreadors, wood grain–this is for you. siestas in a hammock of love–for you. parachutes dripping through the sky, like rain. powerful men in cadillacs, like rain. hood ornaments. this is for
We Were So On*
1.)In our newsroom, wevote down the universe; wethwart its regional center; wearrive with a helicopter tothwart its regional center; weget control wecall websites wereally want to getdisconnected by a cable 2.)the feds let it rollbetween the family and the friendsdisapproval/procreationglobal
Recital
I am thinking / a number is not for you / to guess I am over coy bebes that / coil around the feet / that lech / unnoticed until someone’s dangling from my meat-hook / I am not over
A Better Age of Reason
Cue the mourning doves and cathedral spires, a high white room and the same woman’s voice stuttering from the lectern. Before the conference even started, we’d gotten into an argument. Because there are other things that were exciting about the
Chorale 2
TARGETTING: CHORALE Voice 1 Voice 2 stem cells pertinent impermanent twenty dollars would buy your rent and carry you to infantaland, the after road, as poll takers. princely? Yes, and caveated too, as are all afternoons. we wandered in backlog
Year
when winter comesso hard. shudderingwith aftershocks wellinto spring and evenaugust, we feel what happened then.the rain slapping hardon a tin roof frightening usto the window, watchingfor hail or other revolution. Naomi Buck Palagi has work published in journals such as
Preservation
The end is built into the beginning.— Charlie Kaufman III. Some prefer the disintegration, and a document of time. Damage the film over and over, each slash of dark standing for shadow. In the film, the sleepwalker walks again. A
Games We Play
1 “hide and seek” a- pretending we see things we don’t b- pretending we don’t see things we do 2 “house” a- idealism: togetherness foreverness, sum greater than two parts, weaving in and out of each other without ever feeling stuck (e.g.