‘Have you seen a beautiful naked antelope lady running through the streets?’
Klaus Shawano lives in exactly half of the bottom floor of a duplex built in 1872 and owned now by his friend and boss, Richard Whiteheart Beads. His main room, once the dining room, has a rippled old window topped with a stained-glass panel. Even though the old window looks directly into the window…
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‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
Allen Bratton on a daytrip to a castle with his older boyfriend.
‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
‘Seven corporations control the afterlife now, and many people spend their lives amassing the money to upload into the best.’
‘We live in these places out of necessity, lucky to have them out of the terrible explosion of humanity.’
‘Ikwe is the word for woman in the language of the Anishinabe, my mother's people, whose descendants, mixed with and married to French trappers and farmers, are the Michifs of the Turtle Mountain reservation in North Dakota.‘
‘It was hot and windy in the garden of Our Lady of the Wheat, but inside the convent it was worse.’
‘I had never seen a child this little before, so small that it was not a child yet.’
‘There is no such thing as time or June, / only what you’re born into’
A new poem by Natalie Diaz.
