Aliza Ali Khan Listen Years ago, our mother ferried our belongings to a blank living room where she laid me, gently, catnapping on a cotton coverlet. Close by, my sister was studying the topography of the yellowing walls, fingernail lightly touring cracks and crinkles in the stucco, a bumpy world map without the rotund […]
Category: Winter 2020
Sue D. Burton – Sand & Ostrich at the Beach
Sue D. Burton Sand & Ostrich at the Beach SAND ADMONISHES OSTRICH FOR STICKING HER HEAD IN THE SAND EVEN THOUGH, NON-FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING, OSTRICHES DON’T STICK THEIR HEADS IN THE SAND—THEY JUST BLEND IN— but Sand is in a bad mood & extinction is coming & Ostrich has done nothing about it. & Ostrich […]
Candice Wuehle – frottuer 0
Candice Wuehle frottuer 0 author’s note: “frottuer 0” is the final edition to a sequence of poems included in Death Industrial Complex, a long poem meditation on the work of photographer Francesca Woodman. Woodman’s own work blends themes of spirituality and female subjectivity as presented through Woodman’s self-portraits, which are themselves a fascinating mixture of contemporary fashion […]
