King and Queen of the Weekend: The Glorious Revisionism of Lorde’s Melodrama

King and Queen of the Weekend: The Glorious Revisionism of Lorde’s Melodrama

In 2013, Pure Heroine burst into pop culture with a precocious “Royals” that was more acutely aware of the limitations of adolescence and the humility…

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At the observatory

At the observatory

It is the place where, without admixture or confusion, all the places of the world, seen from every angle, coexist. — J L Borges, The…

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Out of the Aeneid

Out of the Aeneid

Next door a rooster inscribes his cry on the living cosmos.   Overnight my hair has become a nest of aluminum foil   to short…

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The Final Darkness

The Final Darkness

“In this big world of adults, observing with my big round eyes, Mum said we are bound by love and friendship and live together as…

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Skin is Core

Skin is Core

Soap dissolves molecule by molecule, runnels toward   the drain and disappearance. The skin is core, outer the inner,   so only the shrinking, —rounding,…

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FLOATING, FLOATING

FLOATING, FLOATING

Our lives race feebly in all directions. A frozen piece of land at the bottom of the earth… “I seem to hold in reserve something…

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Bad Pet, Mad Pet

Bad Pet, Mad Pet

The long black hair of the vampire smelled of wildflowers and fresh soil. I inhaled hungrily, absorbing in every way I could think of. His…

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Daphne Rises

Daphne Rises

Look how Mercury dapples the sky & Daphne’s house Faces north; there is nothing to say about the light Except it reaches beyond the heavens…

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Museum Canvass Rarely Seen

Museum Canvass Rarely Seen

The war was over, but for how long we didn’t know. The streets were filled with debris and fires. As we walked among the bombed…

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Tangiers

Tangiers

The old narrow wooden streets of claustrophobia with market traders of differing size and health are adjoined by newer streets of many young gazers arrested…

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