PARABELLUM In July enough rain to get the stream flowing in the other direction; but sufficient sunlight to raise the heads of drooping flowers seen through windows unwashed in all these years, set in walls from which the paint is peeling off in palm-sized flakes. In August a metallic-blue-green dragonfly hovering above fallen rose petals. In September a … [Read more...]
Here to Learn: Remembering Paul Bowles by Mark Terrill
In the spring of 1982 I was working as a deck machinist on a cable-laying ship based out of Norfolk, Virginia. In a copy of the Village Voice that I’d picked up while on shore leave, I saw an advertisement for a writing workshop with Paul Bowles in Tangier, Morocco, scheduled for that summer. I immediately sent away for an application form, and when it arrived, I carefully … [Read more...]
4 poems by Mark Terrill
Ode to the Obvious A road untraveled like a fever unmeasured, the distance vaporizing in the heat of the moment; the representations are no longer visible. The world takes on a hue. Sub-somewhere, sub-something, you’re down there where you belong. The last pacifier consumed, the smoke from the ruins coiling up into the darkening firmament, where a skein-like wedge … [Read more...]
