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Further Reading
ORE: an excerpt from Ore, the third book of Christophe Casamassima’s Proteus Cycle
In the beginning was the word He bore his threefold soul in his hand His poems: singing theses Even the winds will shy away from their dust. His subjects swell with size streetnoises, loving sleigh We look and we see Requiem No poetry before ours in the insane who clip you and store you Ping, […]
FIRST ATHENIANS by Patrick Fadely
Don’t talk to Christopher Nelms He’s hatching an egg in his mouth And if he speaks He might drop it Or if he didn’t drop it The words might penetrate the egg And the bird emerge all weird With a face in its hand and an eye in its ear. Don’t talk to J. Matherly […]
Papa’s Red Money Box
by Rashmi Agrawal
Our eyes would be fixed on the box, hoping to get a fleeting peek inside. Would its touch be steely? Or had smooth feel of those notes? We couldn’t imagine if it were heavy like Maa’s salt container or feathery like ghee’s.
