Winter 2012

June is Corn and Coaldust

June is Corn and Coaldust

She wears no shoes; her toughened toes are somewhere between pink and blue. Her face is a square of uncooked meat, a butchered slab, features melted together in the centre.

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Citrine

Citrine

Gentlemen prefer blonde — Crystals/ Like that bitch in Dynasty/ Fake and cheap, it doesn't matter/ Honey sometimes; lemon always/ I will make you pucker up/ Marvelous upon the finger/ Mansfield

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Three Readers

Three Readers

Bon evening, gents, ladies, and willkommen to Benton Center’s Summer Reading Series! Because we’re ecstatic to have you. I’m ecstatic to have you!

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Simon’s Point of View

Simon's Point of View

I keep thinking of him./ Simon was my wife’s cat,/ around long before me,/ and mean as a snake./ He pissed on the couch/ and stared at you with/ diseased greenish eyes

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The Brain No More Sacred

The Brain No More Sacred

Why use this/ fork, why not to revolt, why carefully/ bump noun verb noun sans adjective, why/ wear a red flower, why to stay inside/ unless carrying an umbrella,/ why the sand must be wet.

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On Our Way Home

On Our Way Home

We don't see Witching Hour/ stalking us at the hot dog stand on Twenty-Third/ in that silver sequin dress/ everyone needs

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Billy Budd

Billy Budd

you're a beaten ghost man/ you're hundred year old toast/ poked by a Nursing home British Brigadier/ man

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no more than the bird with piercing voice

no more than the bird with piercing voice

invisible reins her neck/ jerked/ her lashes brittle feathered/ wilted/ dropped/ under hope/ chest nails particles/ of skin

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Editor’s Corner: Bad Writing for Good Writers

Bad Writing for Good Writers

If a writer tells you that reading isn’t an essential component of writing, spit in his face and run swiftly away. Do not, under any situation, read his work.

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