Wrestling Emily Dickinson
The life & opinions of AJ McKenna.
Thursday, 25 June 2015
Unfair Advantage
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So I came across this brilliant piec e by Katherine Cross on how writers with Guardian and New York Times columns still claim to be being ...
Thursday, 18 June 2015
A stain, a gift, a shadow
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Hiding in a toilet stall, I photograph the bruise: this capillary trace of the way your cupped palms made their percussive contact with m...
Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Laser
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She sounds like Sidse Knudsen telling Chiara D'Anna she's late. She tells me to climb on the couch, compliments me on my boot...
Tuesday, 9 June 2015
Zugzwang
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This game of chess, this drive to seize and take, this duel of bluff and countermove and feint, is what your songs and movies celebrate?...
Wednesday, 27 May 2015
Pyjama Revenge (after...oh, take a wild, leaping guess)
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The part of me that hates to bake would make my birthday cake for you if you asked me in that tone of voice telling me you have to: rea...
Friday, 22 May 2015
A nice bath and painkillers (another one after Peter Strickland)
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It's all downhill from now, she says, and her younger lover smiles, and tells her she's many years left . I have been that younge...
Saturday, 16 May 2015
The Flirtatious Use of Tape Measures (after Peter Strickland)
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I'm double-bluff and Highsmith riffs, I know this: if another woman's eyes met mine the way Fatma looks at Chiara during the meas...
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