and the poetry collection. Soon!

from the back cover:

oh bathsheba two words of house

her dusty feet sprinkle golden surgical openings.
greta garbo is not my sister.

a door opens and i enter like someone who–he

sits on a chair, reading a book, unaware of my theme music, turning crispy pages back and forth, compromising passages.

greta plays with her toy boats. she uses the rug as the ocean. her sunlight pasted above a map of the medulla oblongata.

“i have to take off my dress or the rain will stop”, she says. “yes, that is true”, i say.

i follow her onto the grass, where i paint the lingo.

it is me.

“last night’s dream corrected” by Sean Brijbasi

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From the back cover:

It’s already July 11th, around 4 a.m. We are on The Aptera, bound for Crete. The sky and sea mirror each other in total darkness. Even the North Star has disappeared. I am on the top deck. Almost no one is still here among the rows of bright orange plastic chairs held fast to the deck in rows of twelve. I cannot sleep because my lap is Lakshmi’s pillow. I have been reading VALIS by Philip K. Dick. “The Empire Never Ended,” he writes as Horselover Fat. He has me going in circles with his theological arguments, his corollaries - “1. Those who agree with you are insane. 2. Those who do not agree with you are in power. ”Then 1. Some of those in power are insane. 2. And they are right.”

“Ferry to Xania”: by Ira Cohen
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