Louise Gluck | The Wild Iris
John La Farge, The Strange Thing Little Kiosai Saw in the River, 1985-1910, watercolour
John Galliano F/W 1987-88
Anne Carson | “The Albertine Workout”
Unknown
Alice Notley | Negativity’s Kiss
Alice Notley | Doctor Williams’ Heiresses
Nobuyoshi Araki, From Bondage series (1980 – 1989)
Ghérasim Luca | Self-Shadowing Prey
Jennifer Chang
FULL GALLOP
The night after, I dream I chop
all the penises off, the ones that
keep coming through the walls.
Tied in sweat-wet sheets, I wake
aching, how I’ve longed for touch
for so much of my bodied time.
In the shower later, I notice new
layers I’ve grown, softness love tosses
you after years of streetlights alone.
I will never harm you, your brilliant
skin I rub against in the night,
still, part of me is haunted—
a shadow baying inside me
who wants to snap her hind leg
back, buck the rider, follow
that fugitive call into oblivion.
Eileen Myles’ forward to Kraus’ I Love Dick
24. The state of Albertine that most pleases Marcel is Albertine asleep.
25. By falling asleep she becomes a plant, he says.
26. Plants do not actually sleep. Nor do they lie or even bluff. They do, however, expose their genitalia.
27. a) Sometimes in her sleep Albertine throws off her kimono and lies naked.
27. b) Sometimes then Marcel possesses her.
27. c) Albertine appears not to wake up.
anne carson
from “the albertine workout”
Little Bristling Soul 