You might be tempted by versatility: the 5-in-1 contouring stick, the double-sided lip gloss. You might be tempted by practicality: face wipes, dry shampoo, a very tiny compact in a…
I. It all comes to this: ♦ If you are a large man, but kind, you will die. If you are a nursemaid of any sort, you will die. If…
I fly with red-tailed hawks over fields of asphodels, a dream too soon to wake from. Doomed to babies & brushing my hair. O sweet Icarus boy who runs slowly,…
The girl worries about her family’s bones. How wolves will surface them to be scattered about the forest floor. She can picture them, packed, slavering beneath a howling moon. Lam’s…
Highly selective in his palette, Reni depicted this gory event with rhythmic grace, soft modeling, and elegant remove. –Salome with the Head of John the Baptist, Art Institute Chicago You…
The sugared days of summer are gone, And, just like that, you’ve slipped away, Into the woods like a fox or a ghoul That prowls the perimeter, seeking sweet mushrooms…
Identify the protagonist. She watches her own legs pump the pedals, pinches the bell in that obnoxious manner, then tosses her legs over the handlebar and coasts bumping over sidewalk…
They gawk at the arms in children’s books, whacking up and down with scimitars. They cast folded-paper fortunes, certain Mansion is better than Shack. They have a pact to dream…
All over Nebraska a fearsome angel dangles over a manufactured forest, blue pills of cars rush every highway. Skateboarders realize life is so flat they don’t know if they can…
What a strange thing to see in a dream, How the word pigeon is an ugly word. But that is what I saw, with its ending like sturgeon, Truncheon, dudgeon,…
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