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Satan in the Desert

From the January 1999 Print Edition

Satan on the hills at a high place looking to restore some kind of order to perspective: “Look kid,” he says, “it’s like this” I make you an offer, you make a counter offer- really, we shouldn’t even be talking you sure you haven’t got an agent?” Jesus . . . . Continue Reading »

Remains

From the August/September 1998 Print Edition

A house alongside the roadhas been gutted; a few remainsof the furnishings”wallpaper, toasters, beams”peak out amid the empty woundswhere the building gave up its ghostlike an old man opening wide for one last breath”only the fire here openedevery mouth, all over the bodya gash in . . . . Continue Reading »