...Thomas Patrick Levy © 2015 Thomas Patrick Levy 2015 Thomas Patrick Levy A Picture of a Wall On the walls of the storefront I put a fake picture. On the walls you make a fake heart in the shape of a fake face. A face on a face. A pic- ture of a wall. You wear your bricks like pants...

...Rosa Walling-Wefelmeyer © 2016 Rosa Walling-Wefelmeyer 2016 Rosa Walling-Wefelmeyer Solar Plexus (my mother is away again) In your absence I twitch at your bedsheets, clutching yellow to me, snuffling for your wild smell in their tessellated flowers. Please come back, I hiss at your...

.... Darcleight 37 Without looking too obvious, I deposited Cheri into the bench seating, propping his back against the wall. “Thaaata girl,” I might have said, relieved that the hardest was over. Standing with my back to the wall, I instinctively reached for Cheri’s wrist and took a pulse...

... is talk of a kid, like the one diagrammed on page 57 of the pregnancy book, whose arms and legs are fully extended, appearing to push on the uterus wall. I say “appearing” because I wonder about symbolic language in the womb. To me it looks like the baby is painting...

... in impossible circumstances? The article describes the power of imagination in embodied lives without choices and tentatively proposes the possibility that creative work can restore human solidarity across prison walls and rebuild relationships and communities that had been broken (15). Looking Back at Life...

... Attendent .” South Atlantic Review 81 , no. 1 : 136 – 56 . Lowe Lisa . 2015 . The Intimacies of Four Continents . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Loyd Jena Mitchelson Matt Burridge Andrew . 2012 . “ Borders, Prisons, and Abolitionist Visions .” In Beyond Walls...

..., paint the walls. There’s a rhythm to it. One, two, one, two. I stroke eight rows down the wall and it’s white. Makes me think of my Pointer pacing his pen all day. Taut, he walks up and back watching jays bicker...

... a problem here!” But people, their ears tuned with hope, their senses dimmed with noise, heard “Coldwell” instead of “problem”—and maybe “Coldwell” instead of “Hold onand they pressed poor Edna against the wall as they grabbed the fliers from her hands on “VOTING...

... Grandmother’s shapeless and naked body. I watched as together they turned into a monster— with its two tired legs and its two dragging tails—that stepped and stumbled its way down the hall and into the bathroom. Weak little limbs bumped against the walls of the hallway. Big feet pounded against...

... that afternoon. Your dad s not home from work yet, your mom too busy making dinner to pay any attention to your internet searches. Your brother is banging on his drums in his room upstairs, the wild thump thump thump echoing through the walls as if the house were a ship being rammed into by an unhinged sperm...

...Jonathan Andrew Pérez Jonathan Andrew Pérez A Historiography of Hart Island Some of the Land farmed under peonage of Slavery had later become the Virginia Country Club. The Case for Reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Atlantic Monthly The Italian wall lizard traveled miles upon miles escaping cargo...

...Maria Zoccola Copyright © 2024 Maria Zoccola 2024 Louvre: Hélène sur les murs de Troie, Gustave Moreau start with the walls. ignore what's below. ignore the girl, or if your eyes run to her, see her as a single red stain. instead, the light: how it rises in gold smoke, teeming...

... Ernest . 1975 . Ecotopia . Berkeley, CA : Banyan Tree Books . Chakrabarty Dipesh . 2009 . “ The Climate of History: Four Theses .” Critical Inquiry 35 , no. 2 : 197 – 222 . Cornell Andrew . 2012 . “ Occupy Wall Street and Consensus Decision Making .” Periscope . what...

... the cellular walls of everything that foolishly chose to live here, to die here and not on another plane where it s too cold to grip onto loved ones, or too vacuous to hear their confessions I sense an atom bomb / in the words you re about to speak and if you re quiet for just a moment, we can both avoid...

... L. D. III . 2008 . “ Geology of the New Orleans Area and the Canal Levee Failures .” Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering 134 : 566 – 82 . Duncan J. M. . 2008 . “ Stability of I-Walls in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina .” Journal of Geotechnical...

... drive cars are idol worshippers. Jews who watch color television while laying down in the comfort of wall-to-wall carpeting have lain down before their ultimate idol, and shall never stand. Your cousins are lazy my mother told me. Listen to them, they cry if they have to walk from a parked...

... and a cat was rubbing up against her. Seeing me approach triggered her frustration and she hit the cat with a hard right. I saw the cat flying up against the wall and taking off running. “Goddamn silly ass cat, keep your dirty ass off me!” I broke out laughing...

... if it weren t so ice-freeze. Need be hot. But she be cold. ere be so much sectionals: like name before there be battle- ment and kingdom keeps, but also moaty moat and towers and walls to keep out the banditos. Also additionals: ags and kingdom crest and steeple but most important PORGU! Porgu name before...

... of three novels, At the Wall of the Almighty (Interlink, 1999), The Bathhouse (Black Heron, 2001; Beacon, 2003), which won the Black Heron Press Award for Social Fiction, and Against Gravity (Penguin, 2006), and a collection of short stories, The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree (Black...

... there, and for containing the smell of rot in the body politic. Exactly how the state intervenes so destructively in the lives of a section of its own people is thus difficult to document. Stone walls and razor wire are nearly as hard to broach from the outside as from inside. And how much do we really want...