precursory questions
1. how many home videos did you keep?
2. how many seeped into adulthood, vhs tape wrinkled and blinking back at you the screen a reflection, skipping with white?
hey, have you ever considered the word “rewind” may drop from the next generation’s lexicon?
Further Reading
Nothing Bad Part 3: Opening the Door
by Mary Grimm
At the end of the path, just before the turn that would take her to the convent, she stood facing the hedge, running her hands along the bushes. “Here,” she muttered to herself, “here, here,” pushing a little at the dense green branches. And finally, her hand went in, a space big enough for a slender girl to push through.
I Lines
by Bobby Crace
The words surrounding an “I” form sentences that can be referred to as “I Lines.” A person knows how to be an “I” before they know what an “I” is.
Three Ai Poems
by Chandra Livia Candiani
Translated from the Italian by Elisabetta Taboga and Roy Duffield
Look mum it’s Ai
the number that escaped
the last of your sums, the figure
that doesn’t add up.
