A distended queen with hawthorn boughs, bonfires blazing
majusculed
Letters in the streets. She will go on watching them, upright &
inevitable.
“Inevitably, She Declined,” by Lucie Brock-Broido Read More »
A distended queen with hawthorn boughs, bonfires blazing
majusculed
Letters in the streets. She will go on watching them, upright &
inevitable.
Maybe you wonder how a Jewish girl from Des Moines got Jesus Christ tattooed on her three times: ascending on one thigh, crucified on the other, and conducting a miniature apocalypse beneath the right shoulder. It wasn’t religion that put them there; it was Tiny, my husband. I have a buddha round back, too. He was going to give me Moses parting the Red Sea, but I was running out of space. Besides, I told him, I was beginning to feel like a Great Figures in Religion comic book.
“Indelible Ink” by Elizabeth McCracken Read More »
Maybe you wonder how a Jewish girl from Des Moines got Jesus Christ tattooed on her three times: ascending on one thigh, crucified on the other, and conducting a miniature apocalypse beneath the right shoulder. It wasn’t religion that put them there; it was Tiny, my husband. I have a buddha round back, too. He was going to give me Moses parting the Red Sea, but I was running out of space. Besides, I told him, I was beginning to feel like a Great Figures in Religion comic book.
