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Apostrophe.

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by Kirsten Rian.

 

The first word spoken on the moon was okay

I’ve begun quoting you, that’s the language—now

The first telegraph message tapped by Samuel Morse, what hath God wrought?

The first words spoken over the telephone by Alexander Bell, Watson, please come here. I want you

The first words spoken by Thomas Edison over the phonograph, Mary had a little lamb

Air where the music hangs

Feast on in-between

Theology of lace is in the spaces

And this is how we speak—now

I need to gather my things. I am gathering my—

Recalcitrant dogwood blossoms

Did I tell you it’s already April? The only euphony is after-thought

By the way, last week our daughter got her period for the first time. And yesterday I leaned over in the car to kiss her goodbye. She bobbed her head like a sand swallow and kissed the air around my cheek so not to smear her lip gloss. I reached for her hand, she hovered hers atop my palm so not to mess the nail polish she had just applied sitting in the passenger seat while I drove her to school

It was all air. It’s always all air. The kind to fly through. To get somewhere. Somewhere warm.

 

 

Grit, Not Glamour.

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by David D. Horowitz. “In first place and still champion is…!” How seemingly glamorous—to be a champion! Yet, “first” can also imply “pioneer,” and pioneers’ lives are rarely glamorous. Nor are many pioneers famous for their efforts. Indeed, their work is often forgotten. For example, while millions of United States citizens revere the First Amendment to […]

Pairings.

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by Marissa Bell Toffoli.   Sleep after sleeplessness. A hummingbird in the garden. Your velvet voice upon sea air. Salt and caramel, holding hands in the rain, measured recklessness. Pop and rattle. Settle and kettle. Beer and movies. Blue glow upon white walls. Blush and hush. Maps and wrinkles. Memories and parings. The rosebush with […]

GET A RAKE: Beer and Gardening.

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by Debbie Naples. Back in nineteen eighty-four or five or six, I drank beer at South Street Seaport with all my young Wall Street professional friends. We were all just out of college, full of hope and ignorance wishing for the best of life, which often included a sailboat, hand tooled leather shoes and a […]

The Oscars.

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by Terese Svoboda. Her husband goes hard on her. No blushes–he goes hard all over, not just in the assumed area. He could have Blip! disappeared instead, how would his wife have liked that? He has to make a choice, his captors are waiting, they don’t have time, that is to say, he says later, […]

One Night at Sunflower Cinemas.

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by Julie Prince. The deep drawer on the bottom right was handy for stashing a six-pack. That’s what Diane and I had in there that Tuesday night—“Dollar Movie Night” at Sunflower. I usually pulled cashier duties; Diane was the concession gal. We manned the kiosk quite efficiently, and busy nights they were. Sunflower Cinemas was […]

Noble Failures on Screen: Lessons from Cinematic Disasters.

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by John Compton. I am fascinated by cinematic disasters, and I know I’m not alone. I’m not talking about disaster movies such as The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno and Independence Day (the 1996 sci-fi action thriller and not the 1983 indie drama.) I’m talking about disasters in terms of ill-fated productions, bad box office […]

The Marquis de Sade Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.

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by Robert Markland Smith. Do you remember being seventeen years old, and coming of age? Do you remember what prompted you to change from a jock to a joe college and thence, to becoming a bohemian? Somehow, the Church didn’t speak to you any longer, your parents didn’t seem very hip and the internal politics […]

Drinking Buddies.

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by David D. Horowitz.   “I’m going to have the amber ale. How about I order a pitcher of it? You’re a poet! You can drink that much!” “Actually, I don’t drink much beer—perhaps one or two glasses monthly.” “But you’re a poet! Don’t disappoint me! Well, okay. What do you want? My treat.” “I would […]

Changing the World One Great Beer and Movie at a Time.

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by Pablo Kjolseth. Readers will have to forgive the portentous title, but I think Tod was hoping for me to tackle a theme (or themes) that would really shake the tree, challenge the status-quo and, as she puts right up there on her Exterminating Angel Press website: “look at our world in a different way.” […]