The Clock Men

Priscilla Wathington

All day, the talk is lint. Committees meet and look at their calendars. The carpet hardly moves. The lobby doesn’t even smell of corpses.   It’s Monday here. There’s a salad bar here. In Rafah, a wall is blown off … Continue reading “The Clock Men”

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Rendition

Safa Khatib

Refaat, your death visited me. It stood across from me in the dim room.   I told your death “I am ready. I am ready.” Your death stared back, unimpressed.   I sat in the wooden chair I arranged in … Continue reading “Rendition”

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Action Kevin

Kay Gabriel

Any poetic writing about and through pop culture wants to flush the residues of a Romantic ideology of original virtuosic composition without also thereby disposing of the subject. Kathy Acker describes the insouciant fun of unoriginal writing: “It’s like a … Continue reading “Action Kevin”

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