Author Spotlight
Heather Christle Week (5): Pale Lemon Square
If you don’t by now know you should have bought or be buying soon Heather Christle’s The Difficult Farm, there’s just nothing else I can say to you. You gone.
Happy weekend, here’s one bit of bright light for some road:
PALE LEMON SQUARE
When they say nobody rides horses anymore
what they mean is: look, the ineffable sadness
has returned, and while every mindless plant
in town is blooming, an accidental family
reunion is also growing, and my neighbors’
houses are filling up with maiden aunts.
For a time, trading was all the rage, and now
I’d like to try it again. You give me
your native handbag collection, and I will give you
my lilac soap. Later we can get carried away
and perhaps even employ a tombola. I will not,
I cannot remain in charge of prizes. Please,
you must look quickly at our fellow citizens
and tell me, do they not seem unwell? I feel so
concerned. I feel like I’ve been studying
to become a doctor forever and now, faced
with a real-world pandemic, I’m full
of unmitigated lust for business—as though
I were sitting in a high school classroom
watching the morning’s snow foster impending
cancellations and all the attendant policies. Soon,
if not at once, the library and gymnasium will be
redubbed infirmaries, and you and I will drift
among the cots like swans in ever-wider grids.
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I love this and all swan infirmary poems and pretty much all of the Octopus products but being self-involved, jealousy takes over and I can’t help wanting to follow up my $10 Pushcart Prize nomination with a $5 book plug. Please get my book from Ken and describe it as essential and/or pioneering (you can use the term “documentary surrealism” if you want to make it seem like you’ve read the book) and I will pay you five dollars cash.
I love this and all swan infirmary poems and pretty much all of the Octopus products but being self-involved, jealousy takes over and I can’t help wanting to follow up my $10 Pushcart Prize nomination with a $5 book plug. Please get my book from Ken and describe it as essential and/or pioneering (you can use the term “documentary surrealism” if you want to make it seem like you’ve read the book) and I will pay you five dollars cash.
If Blake doesn’t get laid after this promotion, then there is truly no justice in the world.
If Blake doesn’t get laid after this promotion, then there is truly no justice in the world.
two people brought Mather into this world
two people brought Mather into this world
but they bitched about it ever since
but they bitched about it ever since