Celebrate for Anais Nin by Nancy Shiffrin
“Celebrate for Anais Nin” by Nancy Shiffrin in the hills I learn the design the lizard outside my door has different markings each year the same tissue flame terrorizes brush strips ravines cleanses the small animal population I mourn quail and rabbits I’ve fed fire part of the plan the wild cells baffling your armor aspects of the scheme stain them adjust the lens see how they multiply jewels blossoming in...
Anna’s Hut at Komarovo by Trina Gaynon
“Anna’s Hut at Komarovo” by Trina Gaynon Snow melting on the roof and damp from Pike Lake bring chunks of plaster down on our heads, a small matter with Vivaldi on the phonograph and the room filled with cigarette smoke and poets who drop their new work on the table before me. Memorization no longer necessary, reciting is out of style. When I’m alone, pine trees drift into the room, driven by winds of the...
Quotations [and Responses] by Sandy Gillespie
“Quotations [and Responses]” by Sandy Gillespie Helene Cixous [and me] May 11, 1988, Irvine, California I only know what my direct experience...
Knock by Dawn Banghart
“Knock” by Dawn Banghart ____________________ Share your response to this work, in any form, here Dawn Banghart Artist Statement: Dawn works as a health physicist at Stanford University who prefers to view theworld upside down and sideways using words, photography, sports and love as aglue and safety net.
Living With Ghosts by Ellen McLaughlin
“Living With Ghosts” by Ellen McLaughlin It might seem odd that I would begin a speech about writing by talking about how I can’t seem to write, but I have been asked to talk about something I have a certain amount of expertise in and, well… Anyway, what I decided to do, since I was having so much difficulty just writing this speech, was to examine that difficulty. The first problem I encountered was that I...
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