Volume 9, Issue 3
Bernabò Visconti to Two Delegates of Abbot Grimoard
When served his papers of excommunication, Visconti held the messengers hostage and / forced them to eat the parchment, silk cord and all. / Yes, every…
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Seeing the Sea
The sea knows where I am weakest, / It comes for me before anything else. / It finds the worn places in my skin, / the old cuts that swell, / and washes…
Volume 9, Issue 3
Meduna to Ezzelin
Meduna, the Countess of Ravenna, to Her Husband Ezzelin Surnamed Braccioferro, Who / Is Absent in the Holy Land on the Second Crusade (after a painting by…
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Seeing the Sea
I was told to go see the sea / as if it were a place I could go to let go / I had never stood before the sea / yet nothing about it feels unfamiliar /…
Volume 9, Issue 3
The Voice of Laodamia to Anticlus
(Helen in the Voices of the Wives of the Greek Soldiers Calling into the Trojan Horse) / Are you not tired of tricks?
Volume 9, Issue 3
Antonio’s Studio
The canvases are stained with gin so the / women draped in black look as though / they are standing among rain puddles / and the constellations above them…
Volume 9, Issue 3
A Love Letter with an Expiration Date
A coffee-stained notebook, three razor blades, / and a hair brush remain on the swivel chair while / the desk is covered in dishes threatening mold at any…
Volume 9, Issue 3
The Wounded Thigh
From the sewn thigh came the maenads, / Their quarrelsome spirit an irrefutable testament of their– / Purblind pledge for uplifting the twice-born God /…
Volume 9, Issue 3
A Still Life of the Feather of Maat and an Arrhythmic Heart
Themis has arranged her vanity, / With self-deprecation galore, / She assembles her menagerie of remembrances, / The iconography of her better years /…
Volume 9, Issue 3
Further On
Scrub me past guilt, past daddy-boy music, that nonsense noise / which is dedicated to street after street, East Roseville Parkway to I-80 / high!
