Kenneth Pobo Photo: mikebaird My Sunday School teacher mom wears a green dress. In baggy pants, bow tie, I’m thinking about Mama Cass, Question Mark and the Mysterians, Keith. Glenn laughs, talks out of turn, interrupts. His mom, Lydia, stalks in, gives him a SLAP across the face. Glenn, no expression, like he wants to […]
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Sunday Slap
27 January, 2010 от · No comments
For Kathleen
2 September, 2009 от · No comments
Claudia Bierschenk Photo: griffithjune49 (Co. Clare, 1997) your chatter carried echoes of an ancient tongue with every cup of tea we sipped away the hours spotting clouds draw in from the hills ready to run out and bring the washing in at any moment you loved to watch sheets flutter like wings on the clothesline
Face
30 January, 2009 от · 1 comment
Joy Ladin Photo: katietegtmeyer You wipe the woman off your face. She comes away In ochre smears. Traces cling To your lids and lips. You wipe
Contemporary German History
9 November, 2008 от · No comments
Claudia Bierschenk Photo: Victor Bezrukov Maik clutches the keys, his unlucky charm, as he shows foreign tourists through the hell of his life.
