I don’t get it man, I mean, what the fuck?
Ricca’s low, harsh voice rumbles across the table. Her hand claims a smouldering cigarette and stuffs its filter into lips licked by Revlon’s Wine with Everything.
I mean, like, he’s single now. Right?
Mag says nothing. She watches her friend French inhale a cigarette, watches the smoke as [...]
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Born of hammers and chisels
quarry men spend darkened days
The Kid wanted a “really nice scar” once the scabs healed; he wanted something to show for his injury, something similar to the five-inch scar I have on my right thigh, just above the knee.
She looked to Hera for answers
but the goddess was busy tending
to the marital bliss of others.
Dear Ms. Vanderbilt,
When an interview request via Lewis Frumkes was unsuccessful in April 2008, I was disappointed at the missed opportunity—not just for the members of a local writers’ newsletter who anticipated reading the published interview, but also (more selfishly) for the chance to pass along the enclosed poem.
At the time of the interview request, [...]
You climbed through a hole in the Earth’s
surface, through height, cold, beauty,
through depth, heat, emptiness. I climbed
to greet the sister who fell from the sky,
just as a son rose to meet me.
Gods gave us the power of dreams.
In fabricated photographs, we press our selves
into ceremony as crown dancers bless the way
before us. We watch tobacco [...]
You cannot remember the moment of impact, only the seconds before the crash. But, you can recall with great detail the minutes afterward. In an instant, adjectives to describe the pain, like “immense” and “excruciating” have measure beyond a dictionary’s definition.
Ten years into her career, Valerie Poulin realized the advantages to office work were limited to supply booty: pilfered paperclips, unlimited photocopies, and free postage. The best haul (from a long-term stint at a local talent agency), provided the struggling writer with five years worth of script brads.
Valerie Poulin likes men with accents and those without.
Valerie [...]
Everyone, it seems, has had a brush with celebrity. There are near misses and there are complete misses.