The Machine is Learning by Tanuj Solanki

Book Review

The title of Tanuj Solanki’s book, The Machine is Learning suggests that this could be a book about a dystopian world commandeered by machines. It…

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El Silencio de Las Cosas or The Silence of Things

The Silence of Things

Por qué pedir más luz vedada altura,si es seguro otro duelo bajo el dueloy fatigar las alas con el vueloo desgarrarse en la opulenta hondura?…

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Of Mothers and Daughters: Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta and Three Alice Munro Short Stories

Of Mothers and Daughters

Pedro Almodóvar’s 20th feature Julieta (2016) stays wholly with its eponymous heroine, played by the vivacious Adriana Ugarte in her younger years and by Emma…

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Everything’s Dead But the Tree: Notes on Beckett and Alzheimer’s

Notes on Beckett and Alzheimer’s

“That’s how it is on this bitch of an earth.” — Pozzo in Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett I read Waiting for Godot this…

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In The Footsteps of Telemachus

In The Footsteps of Telemachus

Image etched by Antoine Jean Duclos (French, Paris 1742–1795 Paris)

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Skyline

Skyline

That summer at the ranch, one seasonbefore Stanley hung himself in the toolshed,with rope worn from countless tie-downs–choosing his own handiwork over cancer–there was a…

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Form

Form

I’ve never before been intosomeone with such small breastsI like my hands to overflow with themto see their teardrop formblood rushes to imagine the color…

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Fodder

Fodder

I guess I could discuss phantoms and pharaohsand the places in between them,or rhyme schemes and what is palatable. it’s been weeksof perpetual reflection.I’ve been…

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Not a Lion

Not a Lion

1 The fifteen-month-old climbs the winding staircase of their duplex to the small bedroom he shares with his two-year-old brother. The father is close behind,…

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Hiking Through

Hiking Through

Consider the space between A  B,the middle sister nobody sees,or the last invited, all set to gobut left behind wearing a new green coat,speechless, while…

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Lumphini Park

Lumphini Park

Bangkok, Thailand The white egrets in the treetuck up their legs, as still asthe noon heat. In last night’s dreammy high school flamehad been left…

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The Fall

The Fall

She remembers it differently. The man did not kill himself, he fell. She couldn’t know for sure but she had just talked to the man,…

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Creation Myth

Creation Myth

When they buried me they put all my statuesIn the very ditch in which I was to be put. Next they put in my estate,Then my…

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After the Funeral

After the Funeral

I hope morning is only a suggestion.I hope we linger in bed to memorizeSpring spilling warm sky outside,a collage of our lives as rose-lit.  I…

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Her Smile Like Once Upon A Time

Her Smile Like Once Upon A Time

a night of a friday on the table next to many empty bottlesi have a penholder two packs of cigarettesa desk lamp and a notebook.on…

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You Will Leave This Place Behind

You Will Leave This Place Behind

Zanskar, 1921 Your body will be placed on a large flat rock,High on a ridge in the mountains.The carrion birds are circling,Great wings block the…

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