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... they wanted to chew each other’s fingernails and eat each other’s flesh, and it was hard to find time to do those things in the world, and harder still to do those things around other people, with their eyeglasses and dune buggies and business hours. So they dug a hole. The girl was a feminist...

...Brian Oliu © 2015 Brian Oliu 2015 Brian Oliu Blaster Master This is what has been left to us. I don’t remember what I saw: the peeking out of legs from a hole we dug in the backyard, the wheels, the mountain. I live in the shadow of a mountain: colossal —​a vol- cano dormant...

... for something holy to rescue us. Their eyes are solemn. They dig all day and night with their sad mud hearts. Hi, I'm the hole in the ozone layer. Hi, I'm a commodity. Hi, my name is pornography. My name is Joseph Goebbels. I'm...

...Dan Morris © 2016 Dan Morris 2016 Dan Morris A Lesson from Nature In the woods, up the hill, behind my house, at age six, I found a hole in the ground, quarter size, emitting and receiving yellow jackets. They flowed like an open faucet, all about the day’s...

... sound and folds to the floor. A leak inches out from his head. Mrs. Peterson shuts off the stove. Just three hours until sunset—you wait inside the house, the curtains drawn. Mrs. Peterson goes upstairs and returns in jeans you've never seen before. They have one small hole, not fashionable...

.... The ozone hole shot J. R. because that’s the least obvious. (For example, no way Bobby did it, & that’s exactly what Bobby wants you to believe. Meantime, the ozone hole is thinking the same thing about Bobby. It’s a real mess. But luck is on the side of the ozone hole...

.... My brother has a gray eye, face turned. He snaps—I chew too loud. On the bus, I march down aisle rearward. I take my seat, pick at a hole in the vinyl. My name, mid-volume. Yes? My name, volume. What? Giggles, whispers. I press my cheek to the window. A chill scurries my neck. In school, I...

... for a prince to come to the eighteenth hole and line up his final putt. Still waiting for muscled shoulders and a chiseled jaw to move and make the words, “Beautiful, I have all the money in the world and I want you to run away with me, to live with me.” I imagine that I am powerful. I imagine my...

...Karen Kilcup [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Karen Kilcup 2024 I've come to believe in tools, have bought myself a new one— a standing bulb planter, tall green stem with padded handles— that punches four-inch holes even in our hard clay ground. As if riding a pogo stick, I...

... crumble apart and say WHISPER ME ONTO THE CARPET. And then all this dust is holes. And then all these holes are pictures. minnesota review 84 (2015) DOI 10.1215/00265667-2857841  © 2015 Thomas Patrick Levy 44 ...

...James Lee James Lee from Bee Suit: Spring Chores with Grandfather He points out marble-sized holes in the ground. Cicadas make holes like that. Empty shells, brittle husks, cling to the cherry blossom. I gather them in my hands, I speak a whisper and hear in the same breath what I mean speech...

...Chuck Carlise © 2011 Chuck Carlise 2011 Chuck Carlise Antiphony An unmarked plot for the nameless & unclaimed; A low hill of grass, a hole of bones & thread. the men at dusk with their buckets, picks, spades Soldiers at a checkpoint, guarding what they don’t know. cleave...

.... And that's what I reminded myself as I lay on my back like a tipped cow. At the bottom of a hole. In the Shenandoah. Just do whatever it takes. An annoyingly shimmery mountainscape and smugly chirping canopy bluebirds taunted me while I scrambled from the pit that deep-sixed my pride. I resented the log...

... they are trying to make her feel weird and envious, but it doesn t work. She knows she doesn t want to poop in a hole in the woods not now, not ever. minnesota review 93 (2019) DOI 10.1215/00265667-7737227 © 2019 Tracey Lien 49 50 the minnesota review Still, the blondies push it after show-and-tell. While...

... Time: Twenty-Five Years of Prison Writing . New York : Arcade , 1999 . Dlamini Moses . Hell Hole, Robben Island . Nottingham, England : Spokesman Books , 1984 . Genet Jean . Thief's Journal . New York : Bantam , 1964 . Ghose Sri Aurobindo . Tales of Prison Life...

....   15 [Unfinished] Lord, why did Mother go so frequently to town    for more supplies? She came back with a sharpened piece of charcoal and then my life began in my hand and my hand drew a hole in which I spent the night. It touched another time and place. It was all a big mistake...

.... Some- times they have shows. Other times you can just come in and look up at the crisp night sky. Very romantic.” I thought about that, my mom and dad together —no Jenna Daweses in sight. “Like the one at the Liberty Science Center,” I said. “With the black holes.” He nodded...

... such as antiseparated might seem to come out of nowhere, like an unexpected hole in the universe (Wells [1910] Royle 85 2005: 47), to recall Mr Polly s sense of shock at the death of his father. Any word can do this: it s perhaps not without import that the very first word of The History of Mr Polly is hole...

... . “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality.” Differences 6 , nos. 2–3 : 126 – 45 . Haraway Donna . 1985 . “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s.” Socialist Review 15 , no. 2 : 65 – 107 . Hayles Katherine . 1999...

... spiders beneath my shoe never revealing red in the smoosh? While her scissors slice multicolored prosthetic legs for gluing onto an unnaturally perfect circular body also ready for hole-punched spots, out of dye and dust in a mess of glue and glitter grows a spider she believes fragile, alive. minnesota...