Three Tide Pools A. 7.25 x 12 Laundry flutters against the slack breeze. Bumblebees bombard gooseberry bushes. We maneuver the broken fence. Lay naked in their kiddie pool, bodies pretzel-like, jagged. Listen to VanHalen. Waterlogged. Clueless when they’ll return from…
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It matters who says it first is first and I love you for it sometimes I love you and sometimes you’re first but there are days oh my those days when I I say, Never tell, and you tell me…
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TRIPTYCH An artwork in three panels Photographic Triptych, Venice – Steven John, 2018 Points in the air A funeral procession moved through the narrow, cobblestone streets of Burano. Four men carried the coffin on their shoulders. They were…
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Certain Solitary Creatures I. ECOSYSTEM The animal life here has grown robust: the roaches, the mice, the creatures who are late for work and tunneling underground. The epidemic is now obesity, and not starvation. The squirrels will not touch…
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Tres Flores Hibiscus Rita already knows all flowers are not created equal. Hibiscus can’t be picked—they shrivel within hours. Yet the ancient film star tells her this and other well-known facts. Whites are separated from colors. Fruit bowls are…
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A Slow and Relentless Arrival Now it’s too late for us to return, though something calls us back with the force of an obsession. A bloodied horizon dulls gradually into night. We seem so separate from that fire lowering…
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