Winter 2024
Eva Zeisel: Designing the Feminine Divine
The playful, fluid, abstractly organic shapes of her iconic white pottery are featured in the design collections of MOMA and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She spent sixteen months in a Soviet prison accused of attempting to assassinate Stalin.
All That Falls
I went to the Platt Street Bridge today and looked across the Genesee gorge at the spot where Sam Patch plummeted nearly a hundred feet to his death. By my…
from “Collected Poems”
Visiting When I first came on a visitto your limewashed house– a clean-kneed child from town –your two great fists impressed me, for theywere ponderous chunksof granite, notchedcarelessly for fingers…
from Jill Hammer’s “The Moonstone Covenant”
When we fled, we took the air in our lungs. We took herbs, roots, and flowers in our medicine boxes. We took staffs and bows made from branches gifted us by wind and rain.
Jill Hammer Interview
96 Is this your first novel? JH It is. I’ve published other books, but not a novel. 96 Well, it’s a bravura performance. You must have read a great deal…
Tiny Shrines
Boxed Shrines, Quarter for Scale Jackson Heights Aquarium Extremely Small Chandelier Love Bomb, front view Love Bomb, open view Love Bomb, angle view Green Catastrophe Ganesh Shrine Durga Shrine unboxed…
Dreams of Potus
1. The night is alive with the cries of flying foxes. Potus is asleep in his experimental gardens. He has dreamed himself onto this island, this golden core. A tired…
Tentative Melodies
translations from Vivien’s 1901 book Études et Préludes Undine There’s a light in your laughter and a darkness in your touch.Your lips are cold. You smile at the distressyour kisses…
Fish or Chips
Brinn stood on a shadowed street. Afternoon sunlight painted the rooftops of the heavily fortified, mostly-empty business district a smoggy orange. The area around the gaudy well-lit, yellow food van…
Autobiographical Sketches
1. How I descended to the underworld and failed to save my beloved I lost her. Fire followed her footsteps, crackled in her black hair. Her skin was bronze; her…
A Xmas Carol
Ghosts like Christmas. During the Christmas season, a brief willingness to believe in the magical swept over the Earth. That tight veil that separates the possible from the impossible fades…
Olga Taran: Catholic Cardiology
The Catholic Cardiology works were exhibited at the Art Factory in Paterson NJ in November of 2024.
Holiday on Ice
Yeah, so the bastard left me, he left me stranded in the house in the middle of winter, snow blowing like a blinding white nightmare, right? Where the treetops listen,…
A Ballad from the Hills of Westphalia
He fell for a devil of a woman,and she was a devil of a woman for him to fall for,his own sister! She was affectionate, you have to grant her…
Reviews: David Cooke’s Collected Poems; Jill Hammer’s Moonstone Covenant; Jonathan Freedman’s Jewish Decadence
David Cooke, Collected Poems, Littoral Press 2023 David Cooke, single-handedly edits the online poetry magazine The High Window, whichis the only such journal I care to read, and indeed where…