We ate the curd on toast, on crumpets, on scones, and over ice cream. I ate a spoonful a day, and I washed my face with it. I read Plumbing for Dummies and Mama helped me detach the water main so we could fill the bathroom pipes with lemon curd. Eventually, I showered in lemon and washed my hands with lemon and bathed in it once a week. It was as if I was back in Grandma’s kitchen, immersed in lemony nirvana.
it was just a matter of standing
too close to the curtains
or leaning against dry timbers
which was easy
as those not on fire got nervous
if we were too close
i dove towards the shape further [past/
passed] my reflection / consider i
never planned on surviving
Yes, I realize that Cats the movie does not come out until December. But the tagline says “You will believe.” Now I ask you - when has a carefully crafted marketing message ever steered you wrong?
By the door, Simon and River appear as they want to, as they choose,
and they let me hold them against the soft of my body. River tolerates this,
and I know he must be the older, wiser brother while Simon just purrs, purrs,
right now I’m shunted away in concrete, brick, and uptown robbery stats//surrounded by other people’s money
The second crime storyline is a series of traffic collisions caused by a guy with severe whiplash bent on taking revenge on tailgaters. This provides the requisite multi-car pile-up and high-speed chase every episode required.
I’m succumbing to cosmic osmosis/ I’m seeping out of myself/ sieving
into ether/ into sepulcher/ I’m wounded (as an asteroid lurches into oblivion)/
Shaking my head, most people tell their story sober, Kat. With arms folded, slide my hands back and forth on leopard-skin. Next, remove beanie and mittens, place them under the wooden lectern, chin up, and stare into the crowd.
i felt that hard, but also what about when Amy tells us to take our little internet feet to go read someone’s poem & what about when Chen posts a picture of himself in a beautiful neon bright gloral button-down
We are all women in our pink pussy hats, as if pink,
as if pussy, were payment enough, in tender.
We allow the chemical death rain
for this insect-free world—
Nature has introduced great variety
into the landscape, but man
has displayed a passion for
simplifying it.
Eventually, I experienced what should have been statistically obvious: that getting into an Ivy League school had been easier for me than it is for most people, and some people, even with help, just can’t make it, even if “making it” is unclearly defined; this means, if you are an artist, your inability to score well on the SAT’s could easily align your art, and your sense of authentic self-expression, with failure, or maybe worse, meaninglessness.
FILM / Captain Canada's Movie Rodeo / August 2019 / Gabriel Ricard
In the latest Captain Canada’s Movie Rodeo, Gabriel Ricard’s reminisces about the animated features that made an impact on him by the time he turned five years old. Grab some tissues and cover your eyes at the scary parts.
My arm, if reached straight out from our balcony, could split the Sedef Island across in half. So I did, with wrath. I smashed on the lightless island. I broke my arm.
FILM / Finding the Sacred Among the Profane: Orca / Sean Woodard
Film Editor Sean Woodard discusses the moral dilemma in Orca for this month’s “Finding the Sacred Among the Profane” column.
This summer seems so tense. Everyone is at each other’s throats all the time. It’s too damned hot. People are dying. Let’s try to just make it to fall. I think we can make it to fall.
100 WORD FILM REVIEWS / Crawl
High Tension director Alexandre Aja’s latest film is an efficient, lean thriller. Following a father and daughter (Barry Pepper and Kaya Scodelario) who are trapped in a house by alligators during a Florida hurricane, Crawl melds well-placed scares and pathos. Backstory informing their strained relationship allows the audience to care for them, a necessity in genre pictures of this variety. Surprisingly, some characters miraculously retain limbs despite great injury. Although pacing and tone issues exist, the film serves as a textbook example on how to effectively build and release tension. Most importantly, Crawl reawakens our fear of being eaten alive.
The next morning a sane and happy man emerged from the closet, showered, breakfasted and went to unlock the large workshop that is attached to our house. His employees arrived and they began to put the final touches on what has been Greg’s principle scientific project for some time.