My take on the founding fathers debacle is that you and I are more alike than I once supposed. We are both at this point in time somewhat stunned by life, but we know that even so, there are only two ways it can go. Both are pretty unspeakable, though one is definitely preferable, but [...]
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What I Didn’t Need to Know: A Poem by Renée Nicholson
June 28, 2009 – 3:40 pm
The week after I left the island,
it was Shark Week on Discovery.
Sure, I’d chosen to forget; in salty
surf, murky waters, there were apex
predators, the same way sex
is impossible, scalloped-edged, sad. Obscured
from view, it was a dolphin’s dorsal
that crested the waves. In my pink cowgirl
pajamas, face illuminated by the flicker
of a tiger shark snatching an albatross [...]
I Love You: Fiction by Pir Rothenberg
June 24, 2009 – 2:48 am
I.
The first time R and I said “I love you,” what we really said was “Isle View,” which was a park on the Niagara River with a picnic table and a slipway for boats where R’s fat parents would drive us in the evenings, holding hands in the front seat while R and I groped [...]
