LAWN, REVISITED Everyone’s decided to remodel. Past three orange dumpsters parked at the curb, one house is mid-facelift (new windows, paint job, glossy front door) while another’s backside is being built up, Tyvek covering the yard’s sunny slope. Easier and easier, it seems, to make a cosmetic change, to delight in paint chips and trimmings […]
Jasper Glen
JASPER GLEN is a poet and artist from Vancouver. His work appears or is forthcoming in Posit, A Gathering of the Tribes, The Brooklyn Review, BlazeVOX, Rogue Agent, Quadrant, Another Chicago Magazine, and elsewhere. Poems have been nominated for Best New Poets and the Pushcart Prize.
Lawn, Revisited
Three Poems by Hendri Yulius Wijaya,
translated from the Bahasa Indonesian by Edward Gunawan
Bubble Butt deep down the crack is a new shopping mall, so happening. rows of old cemeteries successfully exhumed. AIDS gentrification becomes Undetectable. lots for ladies parking 24/7. eco-label shelves. sustainability tags. PrEP pills ready for delivery imported from Bangkok. thank you for not using plastic bags. 0% installments. Automatic doors. sparkling like bubble butts. […]
