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Below a Slow Ascent (31-42)
A Cultural Society PDF. Click here to view Below a Slow Ascent (31-42).
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Displaced
Curry, off Oxford Circus, at 5PM — Aeneas, alone, ate for distraction at loose ends of jetlag after the turbulent flight from O’Hare. All night the hull had shuddered clearing reefs of cloud below. He was abroad for another acquisition, another trip rehearsed by rote. Tomorrow, he knew, would lose him in work’s familiar tallied […]
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from Our Lady of Static: Muse Static
I know it is dark lady when my ears pop her voice pushes static aside as oil pushes water the cold economy of report even comes to me as quote muse unquote music : The radio has no memory but we do that’s the problem with the club these days: who’s the message for? The […]
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Hanging Bits and Rosebuds
Give it something to hang on and it will take shape • With razor and mirror engaging in self- constructive behavior the hairs in the basin my sex in the drain • Let the men say it this time with feeling. Now just the ladies. • Time enough and taboo words shade from lewd to […]
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The Silence Argument (for Paula)
Stubborn the silence inflicts itself tense with each step we step around each other ears burning, burning thoughts at each sound the mind turns back to : We quiet the living sounds to make them acute and stand on edge : That thought is deaf in the speech vacuum or else glass exposed to breath […]
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paramnesia
one tenseless moment liquefies to be lost into the stream of static’s gray light a lapse develops him the tape but reveals the reels degaussed emptied of ghosts he sorts through this tissue of noise for accusative objects he could once recall as the magnetic arrows of the tape seethe out from their mound to […]
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Apocrypha
Holofernes’ baritone resonates out at audibility’s edge — something Nebuchadnezzar something and clear skies ahead. Judith unbuckles. She and her maid rise, head toward the cockpit along the aisle.
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Zach Barocas, contributor
Suggested Reading The Women, prose by Hilton Als The Recognitions, fiction by William Gaddis The Lion Bridge, poems by Michael Palmer Sight Map, poems by Brian Teare The Presentable Art of Reading Absence, poems by Jay Wright Route 36, photographs by William Wylie Suggested Listening Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord Is Dead LP, Do Make […]