by Darah Schillinger | Mar 5, 2024 | Bubbler
from his lawn chair in the Lakeside photo, right hand Hoisting the three-pounder Like the long weight of one of His past marriages. I think this Because he is nearly smiling Beneath his 12-inch beard. Behind him, trees blur Green cotton against brown water. Gary is... 
by Darah Schillinger | Feb 19, 2024 | Bubbler
They say it will end badly—this happily-ever-after we’ve created out of a truckload of books & kitchenware,second-hand chairs & yellowed photographs. The present, they say, is all that matters,but how did we arrive here; & what of the past— those dark... 
by Barrett Warner | Feb 13, 2024 | Bubbler
Eli Burrell is one of my favorite magazine contributors (Issue 2). We have almost nothing in common. He plays guitar, I smash them. He trims his face hair so neatly. I tend to look like a geranium after shaving. He believes in God. I believe in Chef Boyardee. He is... 
by Free State Review | Sep 14, 2014 | Bubbler, Features
We published a translation of his poem “Death & Stuff”—some of it no doubt lifted from Whitman—in an issue of Telescope. It was 1983 and we thought we were clear of him. We’d done our part. His cahiers had been recovered from his trunk in the Parima mountains, and... 
by Free State Review | Jun 17, 2014 | Features
There’s the Apocalypse, and then there’s Drucilla Wall. The whole world is a tree beside the house. Critters climb and live in it. Things with wings fly through it. Time is measured by it. Someone she loves stands beside it for a photograph. There he is, standing...
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