I am taken with the hot animalof my skin, grateful to swing my limbsand have them move as I intend, thoughmy knee, though my shoulder, though somethingis torn or tearing. Today, a dozen squid, deadon the harbor beach: one mostly buried,one with skin empty as a shell and hollowfeeling, and, though the tentacles look soft,I […]
Donika Kelly
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First Turn to Me…
First turn to me after a shower, you come inside me sideways as always in the morning you ask me to be on top of you, then we take a nap, we’re late for school you arrive at night inspired and drunk, there is no reason for our clothes we take a bath and lie […]
Bernadette Mayer
Third Short Story
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Mavis Duncan
A Short Story
I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men, of whom as yet nothing that I know of has ever been written:—I mean the law-copyists or scriveners. I […]
P.S. Gold
Another Short Story
I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men, of whom as yet nothing that I know of has ever been written:—I mean the law-copyists or scriveners. I […]
Yardley Higgins
Interview: Michelle Latiolais
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Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Interview: Percival Everett
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Brandon Taylor
Bartleby, The Scrivener
I am a rather elderly man. The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men, of whom as yet nothing that I know of has ever been written:—I mean the law-copyists or scriveners. I […]
Herman Melville
The Lady with the Dog
I IT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, who had by then been a fortnight at Yalta, and so was fairly at home there, had begun to take an interest in new arrivals. Sitting in Verney’s pavilion, he saw, walking on the […]
Anton Chekhov
I See the Boys of Summer
I I see the boys of summer in their ruinLay the gold tithings barren,Setting no store by harvest, freeze the soils;There in their heat the winter floodsOf frozen loves they fetch their girls,And drown the cargoed apples in their tides. These boys of light are curdlers in their folly,Sour the boiling honey;The jacks of frost […]
Dylan Thomas
Paris, 7 a.m.
I make a trip to each clock in the apartment:Some hands point histrionically one wayAnd some point others, from the ignorant faces.Time is an Etoile; the hours divergeSo much that days are journeys round the suburbs,Circles surrounding stars, overlapping circles.The short, half-tone scale of winter weathersIs a spread pigeon’s wing.Winter lives under a pigeon’s wing, […]
Elizabeth Bishop