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from “The Hitchcocks” [by Peter Ferry]
“Call me Tommy,” the boy said. They didn’t. They called him “Earl” or “Earl the Pearl” or “Earrrl” or Earl the Girl.” “Don’t pay your brothers any mind,” his mother said peeling carrots into the sink. “Earl is a good name. It was your grandfather’s name. Wear it proudly.” “It’s the name of an English…
Treasonably Good
As the mob sludge-hovels homeex-executioners wash their hands in the clubhousewhile guillotine stray dogs roam. CATS SCRATCH CATS!BATS BATTER BATS!And beer mats get soaked in ale foam. As the saints come marching inone has blessed a mousewhile can-can dancers have anointed a tin. STEAM TRAINS STEAM!GILT-HEAD BREAM BREAM!Washed up with a gleam and a bottle…
Happy Birthday, Wystan
If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. — from The More Loving Oneby W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Find more posts about W. H. Auden here. — sdh Related Stories Emerson of the week: Why travel? Go to Source Author: The Best American Poetry
“The Power of the Fragile”: When Jocasta says “no” quid Oedipus? [By Tracy Danison]
“The Power of the Fragile” by Mohamed Toukabri. Photo © Christian Tandberg The last time I saw my mother she was in a hospice bed, barely alive; I can’t remember the year. I grabbed her hand, muttered “Bye, Ma”, left the room, drove to the airport. The last, and perhaps only, time I remember my…
“Last Song” [by Terence Winch]
Last Song Mother! Where have you been? Your children are drinking beer and playing the piano. Every single thing you ever owned has long ago disappeared. We’re not even sure when exactly you were born or what ship you came here on. Sweet hope, show me the way out of this mess. I keep…
Thérèse | Ricky Garni
A lonely woman was crossing a bridge and there was a slight fog. It was clear from the way she sat that her heart had been broken. And if any one of these three things were never true, I never would have purchased the book upon which she rested, with herself on the cover, broken…