September 2010
8 posts
Artists' artists
If the waves are water waves, there will be a still spot.
For sound waves, there will be a dead spot.
When the waves are light waves, there will be darkness.
This is called destructive interference.
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A Christmas Cultivar — Eating Local
The first time I held a stem of Brussels sprout, I shook it, half expecting it to jingle like bells, some handmade percussion in a gypsy band, a shaman’s death rattle.
A couple heads popped off, rolled under the cupboard board, one up against the door to the back porch with a tiny thud like the skull of a diving bird.
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The tight buds contain sinigrin, I’m told, good for the...
Putting the Apartment Down
Like kneeling to a dying dog, your hand on its heavy chest sensing the vacancy there, the too scarce cough of the walls.
It’s a living thing you leave behind, a geometry embedded in your mind’s halls, the blind flipping of a switch, the reach for a glass and tap in the middle of the night.
It creaks now like the high-pitched squeal of bone, it’s barren tones a frequency...
