Bird Song
It’s so nice how you are and how nice it is to be around you and I think you’re amazing. You make this one face that I love so much. Is it this one no not that one. Less scrunched up. Is it this one no it is not that one either. Is it this […]
Earth to You
What makes Helen falter in front of the pawn shop is the beat-up electric propped up in the window, its silver paint peeling just clear of the glass. In her mind she had already touched it. It is so unlike Helen to open the door, to walk up to the counter, to stand doing nothing […]
Oracle Portraits
Reading Note: My frequent re-reads, to remember the strange, wonderful animal and artist you are: Animal Joy by Nuar Alsadir How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
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Protected: Air
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Photo by Karen V Chin Rakestraw Books 3 Railroad Avenue, Danville, California 94526 | (925) 837-7337 Founded in 1973 and located in the beautiful San Ramon Valley, at the base of Mt. Diablo, Rakestraw Books “The Bookstore in Danville” strives to a refuge for the wide-ranging mind, a place where everyone will find something to […]
Ode to Mud Season – A Vispo Journal
Outside the Children’s & Maternity Thrift Shop Outside the children’s & maternity thrift shop stood the little girl with her dog looking down at the wet sidewalk. The worms are dying, she said, dragging each syllable through sad honey, which startled me- I was not expecting to be addressed, having forgotten the gift of perception […]
Stars Amid Rubble
Ukrainian Poetry in English: A Portfolio from Sibelan Forrester followed by her notes The Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages and Russian at Swarthmore College, Sibelan Forrester specializes in twentieth-century Russian poetry and Russian women writers. An award-winning translator, Professor Forrester has published translations from Serbian, Croatian, Russian, and Ukrainian. She selects […]
from A Seam of Electricity
What is a house unelectrified, situated on a continent-wide grid of electrical possibilities? Failure in the interiors of modernity- keystone limber in the going logics of domestic illumination? Is it even legible by the tools we have of reading houses, grids- of reading settlement? Does it even exist in the […]
