Date you again? I’d rather kiss a cuttlefish, my sweet! A cuttlefish has eight long arms; you’re cursed with two left feet. You stick to Brooklyn; cuttles swim the open sea all night. When nervous,…
Date Archives March 2012
A Song Called Shudder by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
A kitchen match could warm me here in the gossip— Here in what I’m covering my cuts for— That an eel might not drift up through the waters & find your sleep a…
A Song Called Ranelagh by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
So says the dead woman in her calm ways: What won’t oppose you? What won’t actually challenge you? What won’t call your despicable behavior what it really is? Whom for for you? I…
A Song Called Spinning by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Could the living songs be heard through the transcriptions of the tape? Could the memory return with accrual? What ocean lost its cold birds of an evening to bring the flood to the…
Homesickness
Rene Magritte, Homesickness, 1940.