Volume 4 Number 1

A Cavernous Joy

“Why do we need handles for cooking pots?” The Fifth Dakini applies thermal shock to the conical shapes into a dwelling, low-fired and unusually soft…

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Garland

A “FALL” means the meteorite was witnessed by someone as it fell from the sky. Like so many people it saw before you, the sky…

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Rocket Science

“It’s not exactly rocket science,” she says. But it is rocket science. It is me sit- ting in the living room surrounded by the aluminum…

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Notes from the Counter-Revolution

The president had heard we were close and rolled up his copy of Newsweek to issue instructions. The cameras came over, but the president waved…

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The Bears

The bears are expert musicians, or so they like to think. If you were to meet one, he would plainly say, beaming underneath his feathered…

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Things around Here Need Attention

Like mother’s bonsai dying of thirst. Like my son making fireballs in the liv- ing room with a butane lighter and can of WD-40. Before…

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In This Economy

My brother on the phone, in some other part of town, “There’s work here,” his voice says. “Digging pits.” By tomorrow’s light I am working…

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A Hand, Here

Sofia and I were eating eggs and talking about touch. She noticed strangers touched her a lot. More than one was named Susanna. Now Sofia…

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