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Carl Watson

Poem

the dead wife

Carl Watson

The dirt floor had to be leveled And all the stones raked out, Carried out in buckets and piled In the yard as ballast against The bowed foundation of the south wall. There were boulders and bluestone Slabs, some big ...
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Meme Drift

Carl Watson

West Midtown, when empty, could seem like an ancient old growth forest formed of concrete, granite, iron and glass. And like such a forest it had a dual nature— peaceful yet simultaneously seething with hidden aggressive l...
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125th Street

Carl Watson

125th Street Once there was a Harlem of the mind, In a New York of green youth and mystery, Steaming manholes, fevered sleep, When I was a pilgrim without ambition. Characters with metal teeth and top hats, Sn...
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Sensitive Skin Best Of 2017

The Editors

Welcome! Time to ring in the old and ring out the new. Or whatever. Here's the best of 2017 picks, from our editors and contributors. Remember, it didn't necessarily come out in 2017—it's just something we enjoyed in 201...
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Poem

Enjambment

Carl Watson

Enjambment Gravity made this planet, sucking in rock dust And gas, which, pressurized, went round. Reproduction is a gravitational force, too, Attraction packing bodies together. Regard the highway lead...
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Best of 2015 – Sensitive Skin More Better Favorites

The Editors

This was so much fun last year, I thought we'd do it again. (Two of my favorite books of the year were ones I picked up from last year's list: Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel, recommended by Deborah Pintonelli, and ...
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Love and Strangulation

Carl Watson

The philosophers of the old romances say, and many specialists today concur, that desire is nothing more than the result of a necessary and continuous projection of the self into others; an unattainable wholeness is represen...
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Poem

Kiss of Kind

Carl Watson

Virtue and Fear Stare at each other in the mirror, They feed upon & tease each other Until neither one remembers what it used to be. That mirror’s name is Vanity, It can make a body live in harmony ...
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What I Did Today, Carl Watson's Issue

Ron Kolm

After contributing to an earlier issue of What I Did Today, Carl Watson collected three two-thousand word essays to go along with his already published one, to complete his own follow-up issue. Here’s Michael Randall’s ...
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Five years in Fleischmanns

Carl Watson

As some of you may or may not know, I have been trying to restore an old barn in the Catskills for several years. I had thought of writing funny little stories about my experiences but never produced anything.  This year th...
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What I Did Today, Part IV

Ron Kolm

So we’re about to be hit by hurricane Irene, alright! And, at the same time, Carl Watson spends the day in an upstate hospital with something akin to colitis – so it goes. Carl is the very person who would give both his ...
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What I Did Today, Part III

Ron Kolm

If you’ve been following this series of posts, you’ll remember that there are four 2,000 word “essays” in each What I Did Today chapbook, and that Dan Waber is the publisher, and that if you want a copy you have to c...
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Story

Late Night Phone Call from the Used to Be

Carl Watson

An excerpt from backwards the drowned go dreaming People like to blame things—they like to pretend life is an accident, that it’s not their fault.   But accidents can be intentional.  We make ourselves magnets by o...
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A Tale of an Affair

Carl Watson

An excerpt from Backwards the Drowned Go Dreaming now available at Amazon Sometimes the speed works for you.  Sometimes you’re left behind. The latter is my usual state. It was the early 1980s, West Lakeview.  Subtle ...
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Portraits by Geoffrey Stein
Geoffrey Stein
I paint to find out what I think about the world: to discover the things I do not have words for. I savor the slips of the hand that express one’s unconscious feelings. I am inte...
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DON'T HIDE THE MADNESS William S Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg
DON’T HIDE THE MADNESS—William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg–reviewed
Marc Olmsted
DON'T HIDE THE MADNESS William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg (Steven Taylor, ed.) Three Rooms Press $26.00 Those lucky enough to have socialized with Will...
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Caravaggio, Baby
Deborah Pintonelli
I have a date with Henry Henderson. We worked together one long summer canvassing for Greenpeace. Yes, I was one of those annoying young people who stop you on the street when you ...
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Timber, Released and Unreleased
Bernard Meisler
I ran into Jenny Wade on Avenue A, summer of 1993 I believe it was. Asked her where she was going, she said she was playing a gig at the Knitting Factory, so I asked if I could com...
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T C Boyle Outside Looking in
Outside Looking In by T.C. Boyle – Review
Vincent Zangrillo
Outside Looking In by T.C. Boyle Harper Collins 2019 $27.99 Reviewed by Vincent Zangrillo TC Boyle’s new novel, Outside Looking In, explores the luminous world of Dr...
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