Logan Wei – golem
golem I. it’s time to make a golem i’ll get a lot of clay and start with the head “obovoid, appreciably” the manual will say i will look the words up just to be careful it is important in important things to avoid mistakes then the eyes my bright marbles in thumbed-in sockets “for best […]
Sheikha A. – Qasbah
Qasbah Sometimes it takes a grain of salt to break curses; somewhere a cosmos rewrites itself. His eyes are Bellatrix, radiant on ebonized velvet; shoulders, strong limbs of Betelgeuse; together we are a clan of destinies, chronic in complex spectra of fragmented algorithms: this is also the way I dream. In a past night I […]
Roger Dutcher – Getting to Mars
Getting to Mars “I’ll be dead before we get to Mars,” I mumble loudly into my beer. “Much less back to the moon!” To the young women behind the bar, it’s not hard to believe; I’m already old, old enough to be their grandfather, this gray haired guy who comes in all too regularly, who […]
Robert Perchan – On Gunsmoke
On Gunsmoke 383 kills in 635 episodes –Yahoo The Eternal Outlaw rides into Dodge astride Old Beam of Light. He ties Old Beam of Light to a hitching post and throws down shots of redeye inside the Long Branch Saloon. Ah, that inner glow! Those tiny shafts of light searching his dark arteries for the […]
Perry Janes – The Tower
The Tower i. Long Island, 1905. Construction of Tesla’s crown jewel, Wardenclyffe Tower, grinds to a halt as costs exceed their budget. TIME Magazine reports Always someone wanting it all and losing it. Isn’t that right? Let me begin again: Welcome to Tesla’s Million Dollar Folly! It is another gray New York day and the […]
