By Josh Bell
“You can’t kiss a movie,” Jean-Luc Godard said, and this is mostly true, in that you cannot initiate...
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- He was jailed for cruelty to insects, and his agent wasn’t answering the phone, so he stayed awake in...
- By Marosa di GiorgioMama said “wedding crowns,” and I looked at the tight bouquets, dark white, forbidding, portraits of...
- By Marosa di GiorgioPasaban murciélagos, prendidos a la ropa de las vacas, las gacelas; cuando pude quité alguno. Y otros...
- By Marosa di GiorgioWhen I was six years old, eight years old, my grandmother decreed a garment of hare, which would ward...
- By Marosa di GiorgioCuando tenía seis años, ocho años, la abuela dictaminó vestido de liebre, que me librase de todo mal...
- By Marosa di GiorgioThe bats arrived, attached to the coats of calves, gazelles; when I could, I plucked one off. And others...
- By Marosa di GiorgioMamá decía “coronas de novia,” y yo miraba los racimos apretados, de un blanco oscuro, adusto, retratos...
- By Diana Marie DelgadoI turn on the radio and hear voices, girls becoming women after tragedy. Talk about dreams! His heart...
- By Rickey LaurentiisBecause I should’ve wrote this years ago, I’m crying. So what my slow failure pass the years Make me...
- By Patricia LockwoodHow many sets of her parents are dead. How many times over is she an orphan. A plane, a crosswalk, a...
- By Richard SikenSomeone wheeled me to the curb. A different friend helped me into a car. We got to the condo and managed...
- By Richard SikenI crawled to the front door and swung it open so the ambulance could find me. It seemed like a strange...
- By Jennifer BartlettTo be crippled means to be institutionalized, infantilized, unemployed, outcast, feared, marginalized...
- By T. S. EliotAs she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth...
- By Emily Berrybird I was making my way through the grounds of a stately home which had been turned into a public garden...
- By Emily BerryYou can invest everything in someone. This one feeling chopping you up. Anyone can go into the night...
- By José OlivarezMigration is derived from the word “migrate,” which is a verb defined by Merriam-Webster as “to move...
- By Franny ChoiBefore the apocalypse, there was the apocalypse of boats: boats of prisoners, boats cracking under sky...
- By Fenton JohnsonI am tired of work; I am tired of building up somebody else’s civilization. Let us take a rest, M’Lissy...