Jeff Bursey reviews Glass by Sam SavageCoffee House Press, 2011, 223 pages, $15.00 (US), $16.50 (CAN)ISBN: 9781566892735 One sees a thing while one is feeling a certain way, and then later, when one has a different feeling, it can look
Cell poem
j/j hastain has eleven books published (with more slated for future publication). The first one is asymptotic lover // thermodynamic vents (BlazeX) and the most recent one is new forms and meditations for the pressurized libertine monk (Scrambler Books). j/j has
Nocturne
O, cricket—o, pretty black bloodcupped beneath scent. You are wholeif eggs, if noise, if the heat of why.Instead, you still, a noble death—a death removed from air, & thusthe seeds, thus the song by sword. Karissa Morton is originally from
Venus
From a distance, the planet looks soft as skin, mesas rising from the flat land, hand held across a bellybutton, small desert brush with leaves curling like toes in the heat hot sun begging down over the yellow curves and
The Jacket
“Never put clothes in drawer,” Nana scolded me. She had come to visit for my thirteenth birthday. “If they’re in drawer, how can get out?” She smacked the top of my hand, then made me lift my arms and stuck
O! Psychopaths!
Gerrie decided to sell the boat to the couple standing outside looking at the “for sale” sign posted in one of the cabin windows. She didn’t do much thinking about the possible consequences. She knew only one thing and that
Rational Ethnographic Nightmare in Form of Word Problem
Whereas Q is the White amalgamatory empire, and F is the sun, which never sets: gold chip in the septic sky. QF is the ultimate holy, final, penultimate, answer to life, happiness, and love. However, if L, the exports of
Cur.tain
i.We’ve seen armchairs yarned in factories as they take away great grandmother with cancer of the lungs, a string of long fluid woven into her assembly apt for a tapestry, a long room that is woven of her memorized thread
Free Spirit
People are always calling me a Free Spirit. I’d like to think it’s because I remind them of one of those Kabbalah types, the women with the rolled-up rubber mats tucked under their armpits, running errands in stretchy pants. Fact
Tache Noire
“Tache noire is the dark, red-brown stripe that develops horizontally across the eyes when the eyelids are not closed after death.” – from Emedicine.Medscape.com The red cabin by the sea used to house a serial killer. The small structure