from Works and Works And Days
The new morality:/
Let anyone/
Get away/
With anything.
Three Poems by Shahe Mankerian
(from the recent collection History of Forgetfulness) Like Eliot’s Prufrock Like a slab of meat etherized upon a table,she felt obligated to clean her fiancé. A nursepulled the curtain and left her alone with a limp rag in a bedpan full of warm, lathery water.From the unfurnished apartment […]
Icarus
So, what transpired on a hot summer afternoon while a lone air conditioner was taxing overloaded circuitry at the home of a practiced Watertown hostess was nothing short of electrifying