Contributed By: Paul Adler
The blurred cypress
has its own quiet math
as you speed divine
with the white tongue
of a cloud descending
to lick a strip mall.
Motion is a means
to forget, so that each
fluorescent burst
of brush is erased,
so that all night cities
are replaced by brighter
versions of themselves.
A small benevolence,
like the song of a bird
just before it alights.
Look, the lake hurries
to erase our image.
Return to table of contents for Issue 9 Summer 2015.
Pretend we are not dying and that the rocking horse remembers all our laughter as if to love were always to be recorded. Families of stars separate in the sky and holding you I remember…
When we decided to co-edit an issue of MAYDAY Magazine dedicated to nonfiction, we knew we wanted to see as wide a range as possible. We were particularly interested in work that pushes or blurs the boundaries…
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It’s October 25th and I’m making the trip to Selenas Mountain in Ridgewood, Queens, for the opening of Tamara Santibañez’s Rebel Irreverence. I arrive shortly after the start, expecting the least amount of traffic for the day. However, I’m met at the front door by Olivia Swider (gallery co-founder and curator with partner Michael Fleming), […]
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On that lawn each morning a little girl’s sandal rests in the grass. Today the flip-flop for weeks became a pink gellie, the color of my skin disease, but lighter. The white truck gassing mosquitoes just whined by in the dark, convincing no one. I wonder, as if to say goodbye, if the driver has […]
