Apparently in my dream last night I screamed out, “SRIRAM AND ANSUN!” For the uninitiated, they are the co-champions of this year’s Scripps Spelling Bee.
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June 2, 2014Someone Make This
June 2, 2014Years ago––probably six or seven?––I was walking by the Society of Illustrators on the Upper East Side when I saw some very charming drawings posted outside. One of them was of a girl wearing a snake as a scarf. I tried to recreate it. It’s only kind of terrible.
Ever since, I’ve been obsessed with the idea of someone making scarves in the shape of a snake. I’ve done some mock-up designs (you’re welcome!) but I think the prints could most certainly be improved upon. If you’d like to buy the design for me (oh, it’s copyrighted, bitches) please contact Siobhan.
Tongue and pocket optional
Poor Boyfriend
June 2, 2014is a corporate lawyer, stuck in his office on a beautiful Sunday evening. I’m holding out hope he’ll come home and watch Robert Altman movies with me soon.
ID: What do you want for dinner?
ML: Kick everyone in the balls
Oldie But Goodie
June 1, 2014While cleaning out my desk, I found an index card on which I had written a bunch of random phrases, the origins of which I could not remember. My favorite of the bunch was “I’ve said a hundred prayers to her knees.” I knew it wasn’t Roethke, but it made me feel like Roethke, which was a good thing, so I went in search of it. Google came up with nothing until I added in the quotation marks. Apparently it’s from a poem by Major Jackson (good name, eh?) that was in issue ten of Memorius, a journal of fiction and poetry. Enjoy!
“Even Strangers Are Not Strangers”
Winter’s early evening, and I pull two duvets like clouds
of moonlight above our shoulders. Our bodies fall into formation.
Even the lamps are spellbound. I’ve said a hundred prayers
to her knees, and now, I’m at work beating drums for our future,
making a ceremony of my dark, firm hands.
Outside, thick skeins of black branches sway woozily.
I’m thinking of the last orange red apple I bit into, thorn bushes,
and wooden scented vineyards in Sardinia, charms beneath
fingernails. What color is that cry trickling from her mouth?
In our sacred grove, we leave melodies singing on each other’s skin.
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