Exterminating Angel Press
Creative Solutions for Practical Idealists.
by Marissa Bell Toffoli.
There are treasure hunters
out on the coldest days
in pursuit of snowflakes.
A camera fine-tuned
to catch what the eye can’t,
a poem fit to share a secret.
A snowflake in solitary glory,
crystallized lines,
spokes and circles preserved–
an image we can keep.
The snowflake itself
lasts only seconds before melting,
the way everything we most want
to say evaporates once spoken.
These words–the trappings
for a moment, a whisper.
by John Brodix Merryman Jr. How many people understand feedback loops? When you do something that has a benefit, the inclination is to do it again. Then again. Hold a microphone up to the speaker and the shriek goes parabolic. Those are feedback loops. They are not only pervasive, but foundational to reality. The […]
by David D. Horowitz. Decades ago a favorite professor of mine liked to disdain sincerity. “Hitler,” he would tell me, “was the most sincere man who ever lived. Sincerity is the most overrated of values.” I disagreed then, and I still do. Sincerity need not imply authoritarian absolutism. On the contrary, it often motivates people […]
by Barry Vitcov. When a mirror faces another mirror in just the right position, mirror images are captured from here to endless perspective, meaning infinity is a concept captured in glass and silver, aluminum, or other shiny coatings. This not unlike two lovers who find just the right position to face one another, thus developing […]
by Tamra Lucid. I was introduced to them as Johnny’s coyotes. That’s what the neighbors called the pack of wild canines living in the overgrown backyard of Johnny Depp’s Bavarian castle at the end of a cul de sac off the Sunset Strip. Even though it wasn’t true, tour guides told each new generation […]
