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... besiege the atmosphere, great precipitous toolkits, galaxy noises on the roof. Forget your plucky-helmet. Not even double hockey sticks can save you now. minnesota review 76 (2011) DOI 10.1215/0026 5667-1221957  © 2011 Olivia Valdes...

...Jessica D. Hand © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 Jessica D. Hand Blind Gods, Human Braille In the beginning, the earth was flat. Blind gods sat between the cushions of galaxies, palming the earth’s smooth...

... waning into the river. The train bellows by with a horn deep as a galaxy of tenor sax. Its fortissimo fades into the heart -beat of the dribble, syncopated with the slapping of skin & sweat, only disrupted by Ken & Chris debating fists over their last game. A study in big talk: Ain t shit politics...

... eyes. Little sheep brain likes to watch me eat three hot dogs at the Galaxy Café but not the buns. We exit quickly past the incubator chicks who hatch-re-hatch their too-small tender wings. Usually is our favorite word. A day starts like this: open mouth aerobics...

..., as their galaxy runs away before their very eyes, star by star by star, until there s nothing left but the moon, and then even that goes away, so all that remains is the darkest sky they have ever seen and the ground beneath their feet, although Megan knows it s just a matter of time before that will go, too...

..., teaching, tenure, and post-tenure, although perhaps someone who is unlike oneself, tenured or launched into the galaxy. If the outside world (parents, taxpayers, legislators) views academe as at best a solipsistic ivory tower, at worst a schizophrenic radical hotbed/country club...

... nod in the mirror. "Whatever," said Natasha in a loud whisper. "Deb, your mother is such a control freak." And to think I thought I was ordinary. In yet another confounding corollary of Murphy's Law, my ordinary daughter had been plucked from the galaxy of all available...

..., passing the Milky Way and the Virgo cluster of galaxies. At 1024 meters, we are at the limits of “our vision.” The zoom stops, then starts back toward Earth. We slow and pause above the Chicago couple, still enjoying the weather, still innocent of climate. Now the zoom moves toward a vanishing...

... of it. The bilabial onset and the rounded diphthong followed by the dental fricative. What s in a mouth? Teeth. Sonic worlds inside. LIZARD 4. To rewrite the entire chapter from within the galaxy of the mouth, now there s a thought. LIZARD 5. Now there s a thought. Thought through her mouth. LIZARD 4. A moth s mouth...

.... Today, for the first time in history, all sciences have learned to date their object. The astronomer knows how to date precisely the big bang, the galaxies; the white dwarf or the red giant has a precise date of birth; the biologist knows how to date the birth of species as well as that of microbes...