yesterday at the national gallery
……….some kids said of a frankenthaler
it reminded them of mario kart the
……….numeral seven rainbows by
the sea a row of taffy thrown
……….from a float a bloody nose
spring…
I first became interested in Andrew Garfield and his work not from his starring role in the two big-budget Amazing Spider-Man films (2012, 2014), nor from his famous laptop-smashing scene…
Suppose I am awake three hours before the opening time of the day, attempting in a pre-morning state to write the start of this essay. Suppose this particular essay will…
I was first introduced to Vi Khi Nao’s writing through Fish in Exile, her 2016 novel about the breakdown of a marriage after the drowning of a couple’s two children.…
FEATURES:
Based on the actor Julia Roberts
Draws on material from Homecoming, Runaway Bride, Erin Brockovich, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Notting Hill, and Pretty Woman
Takes the form of pillowcases,…
1
I had a thing
about sensation.
It was small, dedicated,
working its way in
to me.
I was reminded of a bee
burrowing
into the smooth cone
of a flower,
how it wags its bottom
in the air—
funny.
2
I had a…
FEATURES:
Side-seam pockets
Available in “Deeper Lagoon”
Ecologically considerate
“Consciously constructed” in Portugal
Call them hams. Call them my milkers. They are thighs, mine, and these names are the blows…
When my girlfriend flew from Brooklyn to Las Vegas to visit me in early March of 2020, neither of us knew it would be the end of our long-distance era.…
Pat Metheny is a musical prodigy. He became a professor of jazz guitar at eighteen and a singular, melodic voice in contemporary music by his twenties, defining the sound of…
Q Is for Quarantine
When N’s daycare was shut down, I was plunged into the role of full-time work-from-home dad, responsible for the safety and enrichment of a one-and-a-half-year-old girl…
I crossed a border, I crossed a line, I crossed a threshold, I crossed a divide,
I forded the strait between nowhere and wish, I shifted my body’s weight
in the direction…
FEATURES:
Over three hundred locations across North America
Mentioned in a Drake song
Has lots of murals, possibly painted by a single artist
The restaurant looms over the mall…
At night, the dead lovers of the living wade out of the sea
and build small fires along the break. They shed their heavy
coats, empty their pockets of debris. They know…
I haven’t killed a thing since 2006
The darkness out there, wet as a newborn
I dog-eared the book & immediately thought of masturbation
How else do we return to ourselves but to…
Non-exhaustive list of games mentioned:
Fable What Remains of Edith Finch Disco Elysium
I want to talk about endings. They can be a lot of things—wistful, wishful, demoralizing, canonical—but what they…
Since the late 1990s, the novelist Gina Apostol has been writing highly political and highly entertaining metafiction about the legacies of colonialism and dictatorship in the Philippines. I came to…
As the lead vocalist for veteran Philly hip-hop innovators the Roots, Tariq Trotter, a.k.a. Black Thought, has spent the last thirty years exploring and reshaping the art of emceeing. With…
FEATURES:
Captures anything on the screen as a .png file Stored on a smartphone camera roll or a computer desktop Not actually a photo
I’ve always been embarrassed by the…
Finally, the mint is up. My small ambit
of yard. Monitoring its progress.
The azalea has a few tightly furled pinks
like napkins twisted in a lap
anxiously below the dinner table.
As a…
Let me lift my shirt for you.
Let me bear my throat.
One dollar! One dollar!
Cut as deep as you like!
One dollar! The Bloodless…
