(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 […]
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
By Paul Raboff, with Illustrations by Joakim Lloyd Raboff Load 3 What’s the difference?A long productive lifeOr a kid being shotLanding at Normandy? The longer it lastsUnresolved the moreIt looks like a curse. I’m stamping these thingsInto claySo I won’t needTo write poems. There’s tragedyAmongst us, close.What’s the […]