William Charles Anthony Frerichs, Ice Skating (1869), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. In Stockholm it didn’t snow on ...

of Sedona, Arizona, with a blank book for poems. Didn't we emerge from the same prehistoric egg amid sparks of jet & obsidian embedded in the hills of Montmartre? "Only Negroes can excite Paris." ...

Varlam Shalamov claimed not to have learned anything from the Gulag except how to wheel a loaded barrow. But one of his fragmentary writings, dated 1961, tells us more.

mop in Slam sweeping across the floor.

settled in heaven from South.

Now she is gone. Now I encounter her body.

gave me. I cared for it faithfully, ...

turned impotent, and had to be divorced. The nineteenth century, for all its love ...

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The character of Stefan Mihal has functioned partly as a red herring and partly as a doppelganger for photographer Michals. His name derives from Michals’ middle and last names in their original Czech ...

To coax pale horses from the edge of a wet, blue field.