May 2019 – Page 3

Five Poems, by Kailey Tedesco

this old house as something still blooming such dust — these dandelion seeds orb my vision cobwebbed. optometrists say if…

Violet Madrigal No bigger than horse-flies, the lawns smalt with them, each tri-heart bloom a giant’s head afloat a thread…

Happy birthday, Diane Arbus! Here are some quotes from the photographer. “The thing that’s important to know is that you…

Top of the World Roaring torrents of snow, trumpeting white, flailing, sifting, piling on, fleecing the town, and—not to be…

“I commute all sentences.” —from Don Delillo’s The Names (p.32) This is lifted from a paragraph where a father, after a…

Happy birthday, Joseph Beuys! Here are some quotes from the artist. “I think art is the only political power, the…

Happy birthday, George Carlin! Here are some quotes from the comedian. “If you think there’s a solution, you’re part…

Happy birthday, Stanley Elkin! Here are some quotes from his books and interviews. “The rules are to form perfect sentences.…

filament Let it all fade in: glass shard glitter, far-flung nebulae— nerves twisting themselves into a phone cord. dark blooms,…

Happy birthday, Thomas Pynchon! 82, today! Here is Against the Day‘s Jesse’s school essay on “What It Means to Be…