Category Archives: Hole ABCs
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Mama Hole *** speech is shame mouth of shame you are my mother in the hole you gave birth to me mama hole is deep I wear you like a maxi skirt weighed down with lead at the hem you
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Stop *** As May settled into her seat on the commuter rail she experienced a queasy deflation. Her back on the vinyl brought the anticipation of what was yet to come suddenly against the undeniable specificity of the present—she had
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Stop *** As May settled into her seat on the commuter rail she experienced a queasy deflation. Her back on the vinyl brought the anticipation of what was yet to come suddenly against the undeniable specificity of the present—she had
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The Dialogue of the Other *** This is one of a series of alternate endings to the Henry James short story The Beast in the Jungle. John Marcher, the protagonist, lives with, “the sense of being kept for something rare and strange, possibly
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In My Room *** It’s hard to write to you—there is nothing I want to say. I have nothing to reveal. All speech feels like a waste of breath. I have no secrets. To have a secret would mean to
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I-Knot *** One long wall of the yoga studio was made up of a row of 4’ x 8’ mirrors crossed by a ballet bar, the other a sprawling storage rack made out of PVC tubes. Several of the tubes
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Hell *** Everything is brown, not the brown of a muddy landscape or a sepia-toned photograph, but the even, pale brown of a piece of MDF. The ground is totally flat, giving the impression that the four castles that
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Hell *** Everything is brown, not the brown of a muddy landscape or a sepia-toned photograph, but the even, pale brown of a piece of MDF. The ground is totally flat, giving the impression that the four castles that
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Girl/GOD Nana fidgeted a bit and then looked out of the window carefully, with “grace”. She was aware that he was watching her. Her body absorbed his imaginary gaze. Sensing and filling the space to match his expectation of her.
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Foramen *** Break the fossa ovalis and you break the heart. The heart is a binary form with two distinct sides: oxygen-free blood moves into the right atrium, then out again to the lungs where it is oxygenated and returns
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Eyelet *** Ghost heard two philosophers talking about the soul. One philosopher asked the other to imagine waking up and seeing the room in which he had fallen asleep and then looking down and not seeing his body. The ease
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Deathbed *** Letters to ∅. From the deathbed *** Dear ∅, The days are passing in stillness here. The condition worsens. Sometimes I feel like the ingrowth is hollowed, but then it deepens again. The extraction gets harder with each
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