As/Is

10.29.2013

Puppet Stage

Why, as I climb Old York Road,
this bridge is a foreboding one—
thousands here hurled from
pitiless heights, as was decided
each time by casual stooges,
whose own eventual, catastrophic
deaths were not faced by
themselves or anyone else:
Kabuki puppet deaths, Old York Road
another puppet stage.

posted by Adam Fieled on Tuesday, October 29, 2013

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10.15.2013

"Birds"

posted by Alex Gildzen on Tuesday, October 15, 2013

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notes of one day

by Guido Monte

translated by Adele Ward



when i wake in the morning

walcott is my homeric hero,

and the caribbean my promised land

even if i have never been there,

they are in my mind

among white almonds,

the islands' bays

happy and without pain,

epic gods who sail

the sea for fun,

the smiles of the poor islanders

are gifts of the dead,

the slaves

have been liberated.



it is already lunchtime but

the shade of

alda merini buzzes the entryphone

claiming to be

an angel of sickness,

she comes up and shows scars,

pill-poisons and photos

of abandoned animals,

she asks me quietly

why so many creatures

have asked her for a way to die

as quickly as possible, just so,

without thinking.



at night i turn on the lamp

on my table and browse

poems by pasternak, poems

of silence and snow,

from a time already old,

that is passing, of rooftops

in winter, and pavements,

of a branch in blossom,

the last one in a white night.



posted by Guido Monte on Tuesday, October 15, 2013

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10.07.2013

wonderful news

abt Russell Atkins

posted by Alex Gildzen on Monday, October 07, 2013

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10.05.2013

Gildzen's newest

you can order it here.

posted by Alex Gildzen on Saturday, October 05, 2013

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