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Monthly Archives: January 2010

Are you content to conduct your life/as a cliché

Read “The Bistro Styx” by Rita Dove.

he mows his lawn in ever-smaller circles

Read “3 (“Wearing purple shorts…”)” by Lauren Becker.

People would dig their cars out like potatoes.

Read “Snow” by Naomi Shihab Nye.

Protective hibersleep punctuated by work-status revivification, technically.

Read “Falling Forward” by Howard V. Hendrix.

Time lapse painting

Gaze 1 from Jennifer Romita on Vimeo.

Outside my window, men and women/and the dark cloud of America/like a house burning/on a distant hill

Read “For Sal Paradise, Lost in America” by my fellow Canadian Neil Aitken.

2009 Dwarf Stars Award Nominees

Got my contributor’s copy a few days ago and finally got around to scanning the cover for you all to see. Purty ain’t it? There’s some really excellent stuff in there, including my homegirl Peg Duthie’s “Evolution,” Charles Wright’s “The Ghost of Walter Benjamin Walks at Midnight” and Jane Yolen’s “Goodbye Billy Goat Gruff.” A [...]

I should have turned off the machines.

Read “8 (“Machine”)” by Mari Ness.

Blackbirds blackbirds blackbird

Was playing with Wordle (again) tonight and came up with this cloud for “Thirteen Scifaiku for Blackbirds“:

the poem is sad because it wants to be yours