Issue #60 June 18, 2023

Odeon

Olivia
Hussey’s
sugar
poisoned
hope

for
Zeffirelli’s
nimble
suicides
I woke

dark air
in Mother’s
tattered
studio

bathroom light
caress my
kindergarten
skin

the landlord’s
library

Juliet
rhetorical

are you… Read more

Watching

I keep watching YouTube videos
of the Russian war on Ukraine
of drones bombing soldiers
in their trenches, trucks, and tanks,
taking you to the moment of impact,
to the … Read more

Man Of The Moment

It’s truly the time of our lives,
the age of the besuited bureaucrat
the middle-class white male
middling this and middling that
geographically limited,
culturally limited,
intellectually bereft
darling of … Read more

Betelgeuse Is Dying

Betelgeuse, we are told, is dying –
on the verge of a supernova
dimmer, now brighter, shape-shifting
toward its own inevitable end.
Will it become another “guest” star
like those … Read more