Friday, June 27, 2014

Screen Dump 93

Imagining the gazebo . . . the afternoon wet with lemonade . . .
the all-but-naked doubts . . . cast aside . . .
Rummaging . . . then rummaging more . . .
Your Book of Days unfolding . . . its momentum abrupt . . .
This is a work of fiction . . .
Of course, you make your way through . . . to the last dot-com . . .
I can think of nothing . . . but the aftertaste . . .
the moments before you were up . . . and onto others . . .
Have you considered remapping . . . the palms of your hands? . . .
You too will be blind-copied . . . and shared . . .
deconstructed . . . longlisted . . . and all that . . .
Perhaps . . . some day . . . you will revisit the remains of that day . . .
Is it ever too late to drop from a cloudless sky? . . .

Denise Grunstein

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Screen Dump 92

You worry throwaways . . . and the integrity of string bikinis . . .
The line drawn in the sand . . .
Updating your calendar with past liaisons . . . from the Land of What Was . . .
Tomorrow will be by-invitation-only . . .
for all who fail the unveiling of the obelisk . . .
inscribed with your internal dialogues . . .
Your eagerness steps up to the plate . . .
resisting the urge to cliché . . . in Looney Tunes . . .
Everyone is calling for hasty pudding . . .
Several have taken flight as late-model catchphrases . . .

Freja Beha Erichsen

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Screen Dump 91

As if inhabiting another's body . . . and advancing to the Seventh Level . . .
The accoutrements of attachment? . . .
The fit and finish? . . .
You were caught . . . in the act . . . lip-syncing . . . faking it . . .
Head thrown back . . . into the odyssey, yes? . . .
So tell me . . . about the friend of a friend of a friend . . .
The players . . . and their parts . . . Indeed! . . .
With no intention of more? . . .
Reaching back for the fat atoms of a Melville . . .
The drama's done . . . All are departed away . . .
The great shroud of the sea . . .
Wait! . . . Wait! . . .
Testing . . . 1, 2, 3 . . . Testing . . . 1, 2, 3 . . .
Later still . . . you will . . . again . . . be mesmerized . . .

Dorith Mous

Friday, June 20, 2014

Screen Dump 90

Your mouth plays house with a conflict of interest . . .
The one you chatted up last night . . . before you were spirited away . . .
This seems to suit you . . . little concern for the moment . . .
Slathering SPF-60 on your hot spots . . .
What exactly are you referring to? . . .
Everything seems to have a caveat . . .
Once upon a time I feared nothing . . .
Your soliloquy is being edited for irrelevancies . . .

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Screen Dump 89

Intrigued by costumes . . . as always . . .
The intricacies of assemblage . . .
of making do with lost and found . . . and lost again . . .
You knew the items that qualified . . .
But you wrote them off . . . and pressed Send . . .
There will be talk . . . you know . . . down the road . . .
As expected, yes? . . .
To your dismay . . . he/she presented . . . with paper flowers . . .
A 180-degree pantomime . . .
Then moved away . . . to return . . . every year . . . for summer stock . . .

Deborah Turbeville

Saturday, June 14, 2014

Screen Dump 88

What if one prefers deadpan to domesticity? . . .
Or the passage of time? . . .
Evidence the layered look . . . the look of the other . . .
Driving nails into foreign objects as well . . .
You refuse insignificance . . . stab at salads . . .
A watering-down of attributes . . .
Walkouts are not uncommon . . . at this point . . .
Imagining re-entry you chat up seasonal changes . . .
and how if he/she embraces the timeworn . . . the frequency overridden . . .
Some are colorless, bloodless, ageless . . .
Rawboned . . . with spiked hair . . . chopped not trimmed . . .
Cloaked in Noh drama . . .
Is the spinning you or the room? . . .
Upstaged . . . again . . . as outlined on page 145 . . .

Deborah Turbeville

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Screen Dump 87

Floating the alphabet . . . sorting letters by propinquity . . .
Pockets bulging with bipolarity . . .
Passersby pondering evening meals look askance . . .
Always maybeing . . . taking a nosedive . . . slipping out the back door . . .
The guard on restroom break . . .
If only I had held it together . . .
Yes, your candor is splendid . . . unintentionally wholesome . . .
Walking the dog through miniscule neighborhoods . . .
Reeking in-law apartments . . .
A certain multiple-choice question tracking your movements . . .
Especially those having to do with offshoots . . .
I coulda been a contender . . .
The expanded version available for a limited time . . .
Unavailable to non-subscribers . . .
You have failed for a nominal fee to wonder why once too often . . .

Deborah Turbeville

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Screen Dump 86

You enter a room . . . forget why . . . read . . . then not . . .
The dumbness of the day . . . of putting one word in front of another . . .
Of putting your hands in your pockets . . .
Of putting your hands in his/her pockets . . .
The intimation of intimacy . . .
Of finding someone's clothes in your closet . . .
Of finding someone on the other side of the bed . . .
Have you forgotten about the tickets . . .
the quart of milk . . . low-fat . . .
the gestures . . . out of balance . . . of yet another day? . . .

The loneliness of long distance running . . . past freshly mowed lawns . . .
the scent of green filling your nostrils . . .
You can't wait . . . to tell someone . . .
To re-string the instrument . . . unplayed for far too long . . .
A question of sooner or later . . .
Your own wish to become a blankness . . . forestalled . . .

Saskia de Brauw

Monday, June 9, 2014

Screen Dump 85

You pass through me . . . through others . . . and into another world . . .
The easy sway of either/or . . .
The pretense of fanaticism . . .
Your hands messaging . . . writing inked legs out of the scene . . .
Convulsions torquing the body . . . catch and release . . .
catch and release . . .
The camera's panoramic view . . . from across the room . . .
from across the years . . .
You venture a costume . . . worry semantics . . .
hanker to tell the next person you meet . . .
but then . . . on second or third . . . rewinding . . .
smudging the spoiler . . .
eulogized in Confessions of a White Widowed Male . . .
What better way to catapult? . . .
Looking at you . . . seeing themselves . . .
The new avatar is indeed a better fit . . . for the new you, yes? . . .

Guido Argentini

Thursday, June 5, 2014

Screen Dump 84

Obsessing over line breaks . . . and selfies . . . walking the runway . . .
in tees and baggy shorts . . .
Everything akimbo . . . in the camera . . .
As it should be, yes? . . .
Transposing overtime hours . . . for incidental streetwalkers . . .
texting continuing education customers . . .
Kicking back . . . for the sake of monkeyshines . . .

WAMC Fun(d) Drive . . .
1-800-323-9262 . . .
1-800-323-9262 . . .


How often to recalibrate makeovers? . . .
To engage classic finger puppets from TV's Golden Age? . . .
And to think you filled several notebooks . . . with choreography notation . . .
mixed later into Facebook fudge . . .
overwriting identical scenes . . . from interim corner stores . . .
I know . . . you could have danced all night . . . and you did! . . .

Gabriele Rigon

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Screen Dump 83

Your erotic other made the front page . . .
A ménage à trois in toyland . . .
Well . . . not really . . . but . . .
the bag of groceries on the counter . . .
had it in for you . . .
and answered a few rhetorical questions . . .
Your recipes were seized . . .
and earwormed . . .
your memoir is up up and away . . .
Finding meaning in the darndest places . . .
is always on the tip of your tongue . . .
Think of the good times! . . . Scads! . . .

Ondria Hardin