Monthly Archives: May 2018

Parachute Jump Opening, Coney Island, 1941

14th
May. × ’18

1.
Can you smell the cotton candy
seducing you into line?
Is it the wind in her hair?
The a-line dress distractions
a hundred years since
hoop dress held hope
of what lay underneath
just out of reach
Step
attempt weightlessness
World War II unfolds elsewhere
Everyone simply floating
past one another
2.
If everyone only floats
past everyone else
anyway
Why not?
3.
If we just hold hands
in flying baskets
nothing will [...]

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THE BLIZZARD OF 1996

7th
May. × ’18

1.
Whose hand
was I was trying to hold
when school closed
for the first time
in our lives?
Snow piling high above cars
on which kids played
king of the mountain
Everything
as possible as
a unique flake of snow
mattering
Sometimes when it snows
it could be then again
Magic slipping from the sky
safety just being
a small speck of snow
2.
Is life meant to labor
from here to there?
Or [...]

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1996 SUMMER OLYMPICS

1st
May. × ’18

Bela Karolyi screamed
Suck it up
and my life seemed so simple
when Kerri Strug landed the vault
on one foot
try harder
try harder
all we needed

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