by Annaliese | Jul 29, 2013 | Essays, Essays, FULL COLLECTION, SELECTED WORKS
It’s a complicated story, this face thing. If you were to analyze all the individual components of my face—eyes, nose, lips, ears, the bone structure, the forehead, the overbite that still is there even after the braces and the strap that was intended to pull the top...
by Annaliese | Jun 29, 2013 | Art, People & Place, Art, People & Place, FULL COLLECTION, SELECTED WORKS
“Every day, artist Harold Garde wields his brush and paint like a warrior in battle. And every day, so far, he wins.” Harold Garde’s paintings are “fresh, raw, and in your face about beauty.” Click the image below to view full...
by Annaliese | Jun 29, 2013 | Fiction, Fiction, FULL COLLECTION, SELECTED WORKS
I watch Mama lift the stiff shaft of white delphinium into the light. The bulb over the sink is naked. She is naked, too, except for the white scuffs on her small feet. “Mama,” I whisper. She dances across the kitchen floor. Glides actually. “Mama,” I whisper again,...
by Annaliese | Jun 29, 2013 | FULL COLLECTION, Poetry, Poetry, SELECTED WORKS
She leans into my body. Hotdance enters my stiletto heels. “Teri, is that you?” she asks. Her eyes insist I must remember how to bandage raging arms stitch emptied eye sockets dam up blood rivers wipe the spit. She waves her thin arms into the night. Timedance slows...
by Annaliese | Jun 29, 2013 | FULL COLLECTION, Poetry, Poetry, SELECTED WORKS
Drink up, I tell you. It’s only my Mum. A cup of real woman. Dead six years, cremated at McHoul’s on Center Street – most of her, they tell me, filtered out through the stack, sucked into the clouds, blown high over goldenrod-stained fields, drizzled into the West...
by Annaliese | Jun 29, 2013 | Essays, Essays, FULL COLLECTION, SELECTED WORKS
I will forever hear the word Marines as “love.” I know, I know, the Marines are not about love. You might say they’re about defense and protection. The Marines will tell you they’re all about fighting and killing. I’m not exaggerating, The drill instructor made sure...
