by Mark Bibbins, Editor
Worry
All the worrier wants is love, like anyone else. But he won’t seize it for himself; he needs you to come to him, admiring the way he keeps the background safe for everyone. He can’t —…
Art
As an expression of our inability to live up to the standards of experience, which aren’t even that high, art is transcendent, beating reality at its own game, making reality real, the imagination…
To an Editor Who Said I Repeat Myself and Tell Too Much
The mouth works all its life to spit a vowel — some long sound with feeling fenced in by the sharp stops of a few right consonants, a…