The Desert Fathers
With or without a bindle of crystal meth, they made their anchorage in Egypt’s Wadi El Natrun, or the dismantled Marine Corps training base of Slab City, California, wagering long-term …
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As Conducted by Seiji Ozawa
Eight p.m. and an extended vowel sounds from the pit, instruments braying, sustaining the nasal pitch of the audience. When Massey Hall quiets, a spotlight sets beyond its seats, and …
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Here room sleeps, will come to sleep. A water noise, sun come moon we live. Naked boy, blond hair, his brother sleeps. Hear splash blue turquoise glow flower send. Now …
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The Fire Sermon
Part three of a series “covering” T. S. Eliot’s most famous poem [German translation by Paul Celan (1947)] Herr Hitler Himmler, the two-backed, two-faced beast, hissing ss-ss-ss-ss-ss, gives birth to …
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A Game of Chess
Part two of a series “covering” T. S. Eliot’s most famous poem This is the part where women get to mean the most. It’s about their bodies. It’s an allegory. …
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The Burial of the Dead
Part one of a series “covering” T. S. Eliot’s most famous poem In 1996, the Academy of American Poets branded April National Poetry Month in the United States, and the …
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Manchester to Lisbon
In seat 15B, she is beginning to pray in Portuguese. Her small hands fold over a bright-pink gossip magazine with imperfect bubbles: cellulite, hair weaves, and something about Mrs. Clooney. …
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“You Are Not Going to Come Trillium”
But I do come to Trillium. To the Cardiac Short Stay Unit where you’ve been sent for the second stent, where free sanitizer prevents the spread of panic. We laugh. …
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