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Issue #20 February 2013

Guy Mendes
“Bridge for Orpheus”
Gelatin Print
from Signs & Wonders

  • On Sadness | On Beauty

    I noticed something strange and beautiful about the word “sad.”

  • Mirror of the Invisible World

    The crown of a milk tooth in a curve of jaw

  • Deceiving the Gods

    The old Jews rarely admitted good fortune.

  • My Courbet, by Jonathan Galassi

    My Courbet

  • The Epileptic

    Conversations with him are like waiting for thunder.

  • Two Stages

    The traveler was certainly sleep-logged when he slipped away from his hotel at sunrise

  • Armed Stasis

    I will make a fact with you Robert Frost.

  • Florida

    The prettiest state,

  • Writing Under the Influence of Me

    It means I drop things, and I keep turning

  • Circus

    How the squirrel, skittish, leaps, lobbing its orange

  • Elegy for a Young Garden

    Shattered bricks, flayed sockets

  • Handel in London, 1741

    Wedged in a chair near the open window,

  • Annunciation

    I learned to hide the wings, almost immediately,