Archive for October, 2010
Thursday, October 7th, 2010
Crazy Uncle Joe
CRAZY UNCLE JOE he piles his bricks he piles his bricks alone while overhead the basement skylight flicks an incessant phosphorescent monochrome he piles one brick then two then one-oh-six scrape-slips the last so tight it barely fits and thinks no mortar there in ancient rome no glue hell lights were made by rubbing sticks [...]
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Monday, October 4th, 2010
The Youngs
THE YOUNGS 1 We fish salmon or carp or rainbow trout or any kind of fish we care to call them. Alewife, bowfin, walleye, muskellunge with teeth enough to take a finger down. Doesn’t matter what name these heavy bodies haul up through the dark slop of the sewage creek to die and spawn or [...]
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Friday, October 1st, 2010
Even So
EVEN SO Our cat cries at night for no reason. A yawl through her one contiguous room until I find her there she is in the bathtub looking lost there she is in the hall. It’s amazing light from a bulb will find you everywhere you look its looking back in every shade and— Imagine [...]
