by anniebellequattlebaum | Aug 19, 2019 | Bubbler, FSR
by David Dodd Lee We do try to speak out, voices in little bursts, the snapping of twiglets, maybe in a bustlefrom bedroom to office. As well, aghast, we sometimes overthink, estranged in themoment, estranged by the moment, a lack of imagination, of experience....
by anniebellequattlebaum | Jul 30, 2019 | FSR
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR HAS ANYONE EVER GONE THROUGH A PERIOD OF DRAWING R E A L in a big loopy font with psychedelic hues? It’s fun to mess around with reality, bend it into balloon animals, drop it off a rooftop. To make it unreal with magic or disorder. To...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Jul 27, 2019 | Bubbler, FSR
As seen in The Geography of Home by Matthew Graham For Marcus Wicker New things is comin’ Altogether diverse From what they has been. –Reverend W.C. Thompson of the Pentecostal Church, 34th and South State Street, Chicago, Illinois I. The Facts The Red...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Jul 16, 2019 | Bubbler
There’s something deliciousin riding the airport shuttlewithout one’s affairs in order.Such a relief to motor away from chaos. All those passwords commemoratedon long-gone slips of paper,dental records at a new officethe name of which I’ve repeated...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Jul 11, 2019 | Bubbler
for Tess Like an orbiting satellite,my daughter’s yellow cap bobsaround the lobster holding tankof the illuminated fresh seafood display,He’s not swimming, Daddy,she informs me.He’s resting, baby,I reply, thinking he’s not alive, but dead and...
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