Artwork: Carter Vintage Guitars by Vermillion Murals / Photo: Nashville Public Art Blog Honeygo Blvd. to the Megabus stop in the vast unending lot beyond the mall, where Maryland displays a faded watercolor…
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image: “Congo Square” by Adéwálé Adénlé For Harold Battiste, Jr. In New Orleans, I saw a reflection of myself in a stranger’s marbled tombstone. I turned away, but in…
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V: Cadenza | Silver-Tipped Swallow: “One of You Leaves First” The story is the same always: one of you leaves first & you both know who it’s going to be.…
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Every summer, our placid village by the Bay of Biscay was invaded by what dad called the Oxford tribe: dons donning white socks under sandals; fresh-faced dissertators in linen shirts;…
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Summer was nascent, and I longed for it nonetheless. I had vowed to myself — it was going to be the best season of my life. I was freshly seventeen…
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Piano Quintet Petals aeronautics rumpling through keys, scorch score Quintet flew. * Vivify I’m going to vivify your lips Allusions, the French kiss Strum your violin strings In a Tenor…
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At an age so young I may not have known what “virgin” meant, I used to sing the “Virgin of the Sun God” right along with Yma Sumac. On my…
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nothin like being lonely at the gay club, and dancing anyway so alive so alive so alive, and I can feel all the ways I’m dying. but I dance dance…
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“Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman is the best song on the radio, it is frequently on the radio, and it is the only song on the radio about poverty. Correction:…
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1. During Sibelius’ Symphony #2, horses gallop on distant pastures. Waves lift the reeds and muscles trade with trembling strings. I smell leather. Hollows fill and water splashes from hoof-beats.…
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“If, and only if you’re lucky enough to get me, I’ll need the biggest stage ever built here.” “Isn’t this huge enough?” the gate-keeper enquired. “It’s obvious you know nothing…
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Notes on orchestration 1. Repeat the bass at the base of the stairs, Daddy stares and composes his chaconne in the shotgun house (one two three, one two three), one…
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I have this theory: every queer person remembers a coming-out that impacted their own. On July 4, 2012, Frank Ocean published a two-paragraph note on Tumblr—a screenshot of it, actually,…
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& there’s a lake/ & at the bottom you’ll find all our friends/ they don’t swim ‘cause they’re all dead where did you learn to float? wish i could tell…
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