CONCATENATIONS

Row 1: ch 33, dc in 4th chain from hook and in each chain across (31), chain 3 and turn. Cells dividing into hives multiplying into frequencies honeycombing into an intricate fretwork of networks and signals and towers until there’s no more here or there, only a sizzling grid of electric honey and the dizzying [...]

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GEM CITY: A MIGRAINE DREAM

Coasting down foothills into Laramie. My father’s old gray Jeep: vinyled and squared, filigreed in lace cuffs of rust. Rockies’ chilled crust thrusts up hard, distorting the horizon. Perspective all askew: Mountains much too large and much too blue, looming up much too close too fast. I am not a child, but I slide back [...]

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PEOPLE ARE STRANGE, WHEN YOU’RE A STRANGER . . .

1. Last Night’s Strange Dream I’m standing in front of a building, chatting with a girlfriend. We’re both wearing our down vests. My Jeep is parked directly in front of me, and there’s a yellow parking ticket on the windshield. “Damn,” I say, turning to my friend, “I didn’t realize that I couldn’t park there.” [...]

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POLAR BEARS AND FERRETS

I woke up this morning after having had the strangest dream. I was in an anonymous motel room somewhere, and I had in my custody a ferret and a polar bear cub. Only the ferret was an extremely large ferret–sort of a cat-sized ferret, actually–with silky-soft reddish-brown fur. The ferret particularly liked to have its [...]

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