bouncing back and forth between

"Bouncing Back and Forth Between," January 7, 2022 (#7)

title from the New Yorker's "'The Matrix Resurrections' is a Crucial Keanu Reeves Movie," December 30, 2021

In the Land of Men by Antonya Nelson (1992)

The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards by Robert Boswell (2010)

final line of each stanza from Gulf Coast 22.2 (2010), "Double Issue," by Kurt Mueller (on the artwork of Dawolu Jabari Anderson)

Bouncing Back and Forth Between

Have you ever noticed that this town has no streetlights that work?

A small dying mining town set in the cradle of a steep box canyon.

The people around her look at the same world, but they don't see

the beginning of a new generation, and spoiled mercilessly.

The priest was embarrassed of his own desire and fearful of it.

She embarrassed easily and, when driven to exclamation, would not

launch into a directive about backbone and the poor and the superiority of

text for seduction and accessibility.


The only possible paths were two runnels in the snow that curled

into the contaminated swimming pool and slowly sank.

The wheels measured their revolution.

Now that it's superfluous, the sun has emerged and attached

a difficult makeshift path in the hazy light of dawn.

What remained of her seemed to grow transparent, like a

brick courthouse warted by a concrete addition.

Illness provided ideal freedom for fickle browsing.

Besides shared subject matter, the crossover is formal.

1-7-22 (house from Reality Bites)

from the New Yorker's "Start with the Map" by David Mitchell (9-13-18)

I like to go visit the medieval Mappa Mundi when I can, not only to mingle with my past and future selves but also to study the map with my freshly older mind.Photograph Courtesy The Dean and Chapter of Hereford Cathedral / The Hereford Mappa Mundi Trust

1-7-22

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11-14-21 of Jackson Pollock art book print