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The Fall of Art

B. R. Strahan

First there was magic, incantation; pure bulls walking the walls of Lascaux, bull leapers in Knossus. Then worship, altars raised to heaven, to earth; Aphrodite sailing her shell-white body,...

Tokyo Rain

B. R. Strahan

With our cameras and crumpled clothes we wait for the bus. We rush to each โ€œbeauty spotโ€ through narrow streets, observing signs whose alphabet we fail to comprehend. Pretty...

Transfiguration

B. R. Strahan

The alarm sinks its teeth into my ear. I drag out of our warm bed. Another winter day breaks in fragments of nightmare. The sun hasnโ€™t shown, afraid to...

Allee-Allee-Enfree

B. R. Strahan

Nutshells on patched linoleum,cracks skipped overon the long sidewalk home,hide-and-go-seek gamewe stopped counting. Still sometimes we huntfor that small face,ragged sleeve abovea chapped hand.We search beneathdecayed porches, throughyards full...