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
From PENNILESS POETS OF ISLINGTON selections from the collection by Geoffrey Gatza
the singular affair of the aluminum crutch In that one historical event—the most important event in human history it was in a cabin all gold and bronze with the fading ferns a game score card you know he wouldn’t fake a war injury with a new film every few years. In 1903 which I am […]
this one goes out to the one-eyed love
by Ed Go
flesh of myflesh & blood of myblood bone of mybone & muscle of mymuscle brain of mybrain & heart of myheart lung of mylung & lung of mylung intestines of myintestines, large&small thigh of mythigh knee of myknee calf of mycalf & calf of mycalf […]
What Is Light? by John Sibley Williams
What is rain to us soaked to bone who could enter the warmest house but who linger unchained in this open field? * What is faith to us sequestered in a windowless room- aglow in neon and lamps without shades and a gavel driven into a wooden table in a room without room? […]
