Talking To My Heart Cool, isn't it? says the technician smiling as if she had painted your image on the monitor. Who can account for her taste, dear heart? You are a tangled package bound with rivers of string, your tricuspid valve a slit in torn wrapping, your thump-thump a secret trying to escape from its chamber. How shallow the breaths that fluttered against your rib cage. I thought you would collapse like a … [Read more...]
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Kathleen Kirk has a busy weekend in Chicago --maybe you can catch her at one her events. The first is Thursday, April 28 to launch Brute Neighbors: Urban Nature Prose, Poetry and Photography at the Book Cellar, 4736-38 N. Lincoln. The next day, Friday, April 29, she will be part of the The Encyclopedia Show: Creation Myths at the Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $8. Constance Vogel Adamkiewicz has an essay in Snowy Egret and two … [Read more...]