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| "Tracings" by Sandy Beach "The Seer on the Wooden Pillar" by Paul Belz "The World Made from Cacophany" by Paul Belz "Unrequited" by John Birkbeck "Silence" by Curtis Church "In Paradise" by Rosemarie Crisafi "Just a Walk in the Park" by F. Anthony D'Alessandro "Columbus Circle Crooner" by F. Anthony D'Alessandro "Lobster Duck" by F. Anthony D'Alessandro "Sloppy Hair in Sunset Years" by F. Anthony D'Alessandro "Logarithms" by Tony D'Arpino "Lila" by Adriana DiGennaro "A Year of Mourning" by Ruth Dombrow "Conversations with a Naked Ascetic" by Alison Eastley "The Book of Scorpio" by Alison Eastley "Cloud Formations" by Rich Ives "Infancy" by Edith Kur "Hunt, 1831" by Joanne Lowery "Cold Turkey" by Joanne Lowery "Clark Gable as Muse" by Joanne Lowery "Accident in 16 Parts" by Joanne Lowery "Little Pears" by Joanne Lowery "After We Bought a Computer in 1996" by Shawn McLain "Seven Blind Men and the Elephant" by Ram Mehta "What I Want" by Corey Mesler "Stagnation" by Samia Ouederni "On The Walls:" by Marissa Ranello "Urban Cycle" by Marissa Ranello "Midnight Shift" by Cortny Riblett "Thief" by Cortny Riblett "When the Beach is Mine Alone" by Harding Stedler "Enter Stage Left" by Harding Stedler "Superman and Darlene Smith" by Deborah Stinson "Per-millennial Skyline" by Elizabeth Kate Switaj "Under the Umbrella" by Sara Toruno |
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| Years ago I heard a reading of a piece by Truman Capote
reminiscing about celebrating a holiday during his Southern boyhood, so when it's time to choose a movie to rent for my solitary Thanksgiving, my instincts pull In Cold Blood off the shelf though later I remember the story was about Christmas. Still, the mind will associate as the mind will, nor does it seem inappropriate given the season's cartoons about turkeys getting the ax with only one or two spared. Besides, I need to be reminded to be grateful that my own Nancy Clutter life did not end in the 50s, nor among my many fears have I faced a gun knowing I was going to be the fourth shot. And it seems fitting to see the world, even briefly, in black and white while gray represents what's inexplicable: how a sensitive man can act like a beast, how the past keeps clouding over the present, how the second wrong sheds its perfect light on the first. Now, Robert Blake so much older, Capote dead, me poking at the gravy congealing on my plate, I wonder if maybe as a girl I was right to think death was some kind of answer, if only for books or films or large squawking birds or tradition. What the movie shows is how totally unpredictable the world is, and against that, tonight I will lock my doors. |
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