MAX FRISCH ~

R E A D      M E

MY AFTERLIFE ~

a kitchen garden my afterlife

a tendril

inquires — I just

stand here

I cage my

tomatoes

and return

to this desk

tomatoes in one hand

weeds in the other

he stands up

by-pass pruner

cape-cod weeder and pocket knife

I don't pack a lunch

your bobbing flight

goldfinch ends with

a sunflower's nodding

empty

garden swing

swinging at dawn

you don't have

to see her

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John Martone

My Afterlife

Tufo, 2018

HEAVEN LAKE (2) ~

Fair Is Fair

After breaking in

The snowshoe trail

The deer use it

Old

is when

everything

feels oddly

too new

Business

A short cut down an alley

May give you the long view

Of life

Mirror

rain

on

leaf

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Bob Arnold

Heaven Lake

Longhouse 2018

ARTFUL ~

L I S T E N

R E A D      M E

CY TWOMBLY ~

NOSE TO THE GRINDSTONE ~

Take a Tour of Manafort’s Multimillion-Dollar Homes, Going Up for Sale

T O U R

JUSTICE ~

R E A D      M E

RICHARD PRINCE ~

AGNES MARTIN ~

GEORGE CONDO ~

GERHARD RICHTER ~

ARCHIVE ~

F U R T H E R

Loompanics Unlimited
Port Townsend, WA.

LUKE KELLY ~

LONNIE JOHNSON ~

TWENTY MILLION WITNESSES ~

Satire from The Borowitz Report

Twenty Million Witnesses Come Forward Claiming They Saw Kavanaugh Lie Under Oath

By Andy Borowitz

1:13 P.M.

Photograph by Saul Loeb / Bloomberg / Getty

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—As the F.B.I. hurries to complete its supplemental background check of the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, twenty million witnesses have come forward claiming that they saw Kavanaugh lie under oath.

According to the witnesses, they can remember the place where they saw Kavanaugh lie, a hearing room in the United States Senate, and the exact date and time, this past Thursday afternoon.

Despite the striking similarity of their stories, the twenty million witnesses to Kavanaugh’s mendacity said that they were having trouble getting in touch with the F.B.I., even though lying to the Senate is a federal crime and thus within the Bureau’s jurisdiction.

“I called my local F.B.I. office and was told to call the Bureau’s toll-free tip line,” Harland Dorrinson, a resident of Toledo, Ohio, said. “I did that, but the mailbox for Kavanaugh tips was full.”

Carol Foyler, a Mobile, Alabama, resident who said that she, too, witnessed Kavanaugh lie under oath, expressed frustration at the artificial deadline of the F.B.I.’s probe. “One week is not nearly enough time to interview twenty million people,” she said.

In Washington, Senator Lindsey Graham furiously rejected the witnesses’ version of events, arguing, “This is a classic case of he-said/twenty million said.”

“If lying in the United States Senate is a crime, none of us is safe,” Graham added.

• Andy Borowitz is the New York Times best-selling author of “The 50 Funniest American Writers,” and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998. He writes the Borowitz Report, a satirical column on the news, for newyorker.com.

JESSE WINCHESTER ~

HEAVEN LAKE (1) ~

Starting next Monday the

Birdhouse will show

all the poems from

Bob's most recent

book of poems

BUD POWELL ~

MICHAEL HELLER ~

Orion In December

                            Charles Burchfield's painting and note

"tortured by a multitude of thoughts,"


he lay awake, looking at luminous sky


"black studded caves" of night


first two emerging stars


then a third, Orion's belt


"peace and comfort"


came with recognition,


with resolution and familiarity,


"some Being saying 'All is well' "


                                                 .   .   .



This night, Orion


enormous in the East


—tremulous sky


pines dark

against starlight

—the constellations


no longer testify

even as they offer

"diadems"


the word cries out

thrall of space


but legato to emptiness


learning


that brought us close,


companionate


with loneliness


even as we pointed


to clustered stars


in those dark nights,


soulless nights


of stellar distances



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Michael Heller
DIANOIA
Night boat Books
2016

JASPER JOHNS ~

Yale
2017