Aug 16
A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations! What peaches and what …
Aug 15
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve by Adrienne Rich Saw you walking barefoottaking a long lookat the new moon’s eyelid later spreadsleep-fallen, naked in your dark hairasleep but not obliviousof the unslept unsleepingelsewhere Tonight I thinkno poetrywill serve Syntax of rendition: verb pilots the planeadverb modifies action verb force-feeds nounsubmerges the subjectnoun is chokingverb disgraced goes on doing …
Aug 14
Thank God I Can’t Drive by Camonghne Felix My brain is trying so hard to outrun this. It is doing more work than the lie.I could go to jail for anything. I look like that kind of girl. I only speak one language. I amof prestige but can’t really prove it. Not if my hands …
Aug 13
Femme futures by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Where does the future live in your body?Touch it 1 Sri Lankan radical women never come alone.We have a tradition of coming in groups of three or four.The Thiranagama sisters may be the most beloved and famous,but in the 20s my appamma and great aunties were the Wild Alvis …
Aug 12
Hematology by sam sax while he lives here’s a list of images light in a filthy glass pigeon dead on the high spiked window clear plastic bag above him full of water if water could kill everything that lives in you & it can — i sit in a corner of the cancer ward fingering the …
