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Two Poems by Victoria Barnes

By | 2022-03-06T12:03:56-08:00 March 17th, 2022|Categories: Issue 135: 17 March 2022|Tags: , , , , |

A Cosmic Dirty Story —from the New York Times, 9 August 1945   From an open door in the sky, the threshold of a new industrial art. To the earth, an explosion of red: the new and terrifying weapon. In the morning newspaper, images arrive: an imagination-sweeping experiment. As we read the story, we learn— The [...]

Trophies and Ribbons

By | 2018-05-02T13:34:41-07:00 May 3rd, 2018|Categories: Issue 61: 03 May 2018|Tags: , |

By Victoria Barnes   On a late November morning toddlers and children drag their parents’ silky purses stuffed with glossy trophies and ribbons to the sewing room. They embroider golden monograms, add coats-of-arms in crewel, tie silver coins that dangle from purse seams. Their parents nod. By the rose evening the children sing quietly of imaginary gardens with [...]