PORTRAIT TAKING
The studio photographer's
negatives cut in two
developed as spliced-in-
at random portraits
half-men
half- monsters
all those headless
bodies that have no
idea they must
one day wake
This blog was the successor to the poetry section of the now no longer existing The Argotist Online. This blog is also no longer active, and is now just an archive.
Poem by Stephen Bett
Novel Lines 101: 101 alphabetical poems, each riffing on the opening line of a postmodern novel or metafiction. Antonio Lobo Antunes, Act o...
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THE STUDIO The vista which then opened was one I never could’ve anticipated in the Nineties—the PAFA campus was set as a series of jeweled b...
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Novel Lines 101: 101 alphabetical poems, each riffing on the opening line of a postmodern novel or metafiction. Antonio Lobo Antunes, Act o...
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A NOTE ON THE MANDRAKE The irregular black bands down its side allow a small force to over- come a larger one. Otherwise it is blue, & d...