Browsing Category Shadow Play and Light Work

Bukhoor

in Poetry Shadow Play and Light Work on March 23, 2023 April 3, 2023

To cleanse a home of bad smells, those old burn pits from decades ago; bring to the earth and our hands large gusts of rich white billows; welcome guests, let it travel through their hair…

Liquid Skin

Under the bad neon hardware store lighting in brunch and boutique Ranelagh I flap a six-tint color swatch at my med school classmate. As if a ticket on a commuter train, nudging to get hole-punched…

#6 (1997)

in Fiction Shadow Play and Light Work on March 9, 2023 March 9, 2023

Essie’s got hair like a dried dandelion. So blonde it’s almost gray, all scraggly thin and light looking. So short you can see right through to her scalp. Sitting in the desk behind her, I…

The Cataloger

in Fiction Shadow Play and Light Work on March 2, 2023 February 22, 2023

Piebold, Maryellen. “Work By 15th-century Female Artist Discovered Moldering in Monastery Basement.” The Adventurous Traveler. Retrieved online: 3 May, 2019. The books on the shelves of the San Francesco sopr’Arno monastery in the Tuscan village…

“In the Morning” and “The Murderer’s Hair”

in Poetry Shadow Play and Light Work on February 23, 2023 February 21, 2023

translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry In the Morning Infidels measure their prey by the length of an oar. In every sea there’s some angel in a sunken bell. One day the Pacific Ocean will vanish. We’re making…