Imitation of RSVP by Danielle Pafunda
You ordered your “just desserts” and thought you were being funny
About getting sick on sugar
And buried your guilt in gooey golden pastry piled high with cherries
So bright they must’ve been spray-painted
Slurping up…
A Viennese waltz is difficult in thousand-dollar heels
I step into all-weather boots for the soft earth
But I smooth the gown that brushes the floor
and cross the line that demarcates safety
And curtsy to the man in the suit and gold cuff links.
Where…
Imitation of Prose of the World Order by Jean Day
a crown of thorns
is not cliché
2000 years ago
just painful
like the pottery bits
tied in the leather
whip that moves
faster than the speed
of sound even though
they don’t know
sound has a speed
and a cross…
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Vasca
White ghostlights and black
shadows. Smells everywhere—wood
smoke and poverty and fresh paint
and fuchsia flowers. Riding in the back
of the cattle truck feels like flying. Sunrise
is sudden, but dusk lingers. Cumulus clouds
that sit on the…
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Vasca
White ghostlights and black
shadows. Smells everywhere—wood
smoke and poverty and fresh paint
and fuchsia flowers. Riding in the back
of the cattle truck feels like flying. Sunrise
is sudden, but dusk lingers. Cumulus clouds
that sit on the…
In Old Testament times, sometimes serious agreements were created by taking animals and splitting them in half, then having the party who was making the promise walk between the halves, signifying that if they broke their part of the contract, they would…
One of my campus ministers did something very brave last night. Having come to Tuesday without a topic for his talk, he decided to deliver a talk on the current controversy surrounding Prop 8 and DOMA.
Now, I, at least, was a little nervous when I saw the…
Imitation of Nostalgia of the Infinite by Barbara Guest
Hands are touching.
You start with dust beneath your feet.
You start with a prayer. Sun is blinding. You whispered a prayer.
A dark head in the rain, heartbreak.
I do not know the language behind…
(Imitation of Pleasure by Carl Phillips)
Standing here—
a precipice from which any
step might proveyour last, and
why not—you start to
wonder whetherthis was ever really worth it,
the climb, the falls,
the bloody knees and (onlysometimes) broken arms
l…
As many of you probably know, yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the controversial Supreme Court decision that essentially established that a woman has the right to an abortion until “viability,” a concept that has been argued over…
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