Red Tin Noodles

i am number nine i have been orphaned through a hole in the world’s pocket i am a fatality of the revolution a straight roller gone awry i am a yellow brain on a black … Read more

No sooner had the words leapt from my mouth than they just died. They fell and crashed like eggs on smoke. Perhaps it’s good I lied. My tongue was roped, then given hope, then surely … Read more

The nodding schedule of the world unencumbered exacted a diagram of freeze-free trees and glowing hair. Of wastrel gasses and canned contamination not a peep was heard, fences and walls withstained. Reality had a hardball … Read more

A crowd appears, to peer at piers, and beseeches a beech at the beach, wheeling at the wail of whales. Going, gone, where escargot. Boats bode. Tides abide. Sand is the sentinel, snail, the trail. … Read more

Battered rook and powdered knight, salted bishop, set to fight. King and queen are in the castle. Leave the prawnlike pawns to hassle. In this world of sixty-four, refined moves define each score. Every route … Read more

Olympic mountains hover after midnight on t.v., awaking western watchers with the threat of victory. The Russian peaks resplendent with a snow as white as ours belie a time when megatons, not ribbons, measured powers; … Read more

The voicelessness of mimes in trees, like toilet paper hung on breeze, or choking back an ardent sneeze, the subtle change as droplets freeze, springs into life upon dead air, transmission interruptus there: where once … Read more