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11.27.04
My goodness it’s been awhile since the last update. Your humble editor & his loving wife have returned to NYC, a move that has not only seemed the most natural & wonderful such thing, but one that left the CultSoc in a state of relative disarray. But we’re settled (more or less) & therefore have […]
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Midnight Sonnet for Joe Kiefer
Some Something lurks, is hid’n your everyday Life forbidden. Nestled, buried, burned From books unlearned cast off and then spurned. But shatter’d waves will crash and crest then save, Some ice will crack in heat the heat of raves Or bodies babble barely audible turned To Three a.m. haunts the ecstacy was earned Not effortlessly […]
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Kimberley Yurkiewicz, contributor
Suggested Favorite Things damien rice’s “the blower’s daughter”: perhaps the prettiest song ever sung. the twin cities: lunalux + love-cars = too good. art: really, all of it. being married: incredible and lov-er-ly. living in brooklyn: it’s so good to be back. paper-with-a-capital-p: letters, letters, letters. (!) the holidays: all that yummy shine & sparkle. […]
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light’s drawn through
here — the margins — it’s all said illegibly • • • night — how silence in the hallway lasts • • • cliff ledge — your face dissipates into a cypress • • • crow lifts through fog hills fold into • • • light smear humming- bird peripheral burst • • • loops of bull kelp smothered in sea […]
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You Were Called
Then the sun dawdled, a uvula in a yawning mouth. Like Sisyphus with his boulder the sun shoulders the piano’s granite shadow across the parquet meadow. The flight of flies trail slugs’ crystal on the hollow mirrors. The glitter of spines is finger-painting pigment. A Swallowtail opens and closes: a book on the third dimension. […]
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Zach Barocas, contributor
Suggested Reading How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life, by John Fahey Aversions, poems by Devin Johnston Kitaj: Pictures and Converstions, by Julián Ríos Suggested Listening Open EP, Channels City Limits CD, Dujeous Rawar Style CD, the Eternals A Guess at the Riddle CD, David Grubbs Shake the Sheets CD, Ted Leo + The Pharmacists Glass […]