The Carolina Quarterly articles from June 2005

The Carolina Quarterly archives from June 2005

The Stuttered Film (Obsession).(Poem)
June 22, 2005... The Stuttered Film (Obsession) Her donkey-heart noonward runs, chortling-- then the actress' voice choked octaves down into an ocean-guttural as white snapping wings lit tip the theater hall. Excepted...

Consolation for Four Sisters.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... Consolation for Four Sisters I. The side of an oversized zeppelin. Griever, it says in scrolling flash-bulb print, pain cobbles your heart. II. Night assembles its greatcoat. No less awkward,...

Welcome to Monroe.(Short Story)
June 22, 2005... Oil the morning of the seventh day you knew they'd never find you. Not with dogs or with flashlights or with helicopters or handouts or all the men and women from town walking in lines through the woods so they wouldn't miss a thing. They...

El color de los atardeceres.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... El color de los atardeceres Atardecer naranja con sus nubes raidas y su sol que alumbra todas las palabras. Una gasolinera exhibe un dinosaurio (aqui hubo dinosaurios) y una pradera...

The Color of Nightfall.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... The Color of Nightfall Orange nightfall with its fraying clouds and sun illuminating every word. A gas station's logo shows a dinosaur (there used to be dinosaurs here) and an endless plain....

Practice for an Aneurism.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... Practice for an Aneurism Not the palms that ghost the strand. Not the spectral gulls. Not the surfers, bored, bobbing by the dock--the damage planned by their wakes. Not the scoring of their boards or the tossed...

Brothers.(Short Story)
June 22, 2005... Eric splits Charlie's eye with his fist. Charlie hammers Eric in the gut twice, the second one because he's doubled over with Charlie's fist still in his stomach. It's Saturday night. Layla, Karen, and me just sit in the sand with our...

What they do besides eat.(Short Story)
June 22, 2005... It's so hot I think my skin is going to fry, so I take a good swig from the hose, but of course I forget to let the water run before I do and what I get is a mouthful of hot, plasticky water. Steve's standing so dose to me I think how funny...

Blueberry Birch.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... Blueberry Birch The newspaper skin of the fragmented tendon shredded easily as the branches frayed into divergent filaments of skewed redirection. We were to never climb its lonely form among the auburn, ...

To Apostrophe.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... To Apostrophe from Greek apostrephein, "to turn away" Not you, O punctuation mark strangely suggesting both possession and absence, but you, the other one, there with your back turned and talking while...

Laminar Flow.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... Laminar Flow Las Vegas, Memorial Day 2004 I know I should see the city like this: so much waste smeared across the landscape, electricity & excrement daubing the Mojave, the dawn laced with unsavory...

Bonefish.(Short Story)
June 22, 2005... He's a big fat guy with an enormous gut. Yellow teeth, black doors where there aren't any. He sits across the conference table with his junky wife. Tiny flat-chested woman in a Bart Simpson tee shirt. We've been going round and round, arguing...

By virtue of what is imagined.(Short Story)
June 22, 2005... "We give ourselves over to what is by nature mysterious, imagining the unknowable, and then miraculously knowing by virtue of what is imagined."--Tim O'Brien, "The Magic Show" "I'm an engineer" I was on the eighth floor, down the...

A Poem from Another Century.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... A Poem from Another Century I was living in your body for one reason-- you asked me to. Some days we'd walk through the glimmering city, down to the river that curved among buildings, where we'd sit for hours along...

Small Part of the Body.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... Small Part of the Body Eye is a small part of the body, relatively speaking, modest for harboring a sighted portion of life. Eye is a place where words turn to water in fair weather, says the blind woman. Out of this vitreous...

Salt Medicine.(Poem)
June 22, 2005... Salt Medicine Rills and hollows touch the sea, forming a wall to the left. Both the sea and the hour are not as transparent as a woman sleeping in hot weather when paper wasps go up in silent quartets, looking for a...

An interview with Tim Gautreaux.(Interview)
June 22, 2005... Tim Gautreaux is the author of the short story collections Same Place, Same Things (1996) and Welding with Children (1999), and of the novels The Next Step in the Dance (1998) and The Clearing (2003). Born and raised in Morgan City,...

A Bit on the Side.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... A Bit on the Side. William Trevor. Viking, The Penguin Group. Cloth, $24.95. The title of William Trevor's 2004 collection of twelve short stories A Bit on the Side would lead the reader to believe these are stories about adultery. They...

Bend.(Book Review)
June 22, 2005... Bend. Natasha Saje. Tupelo Press, Inc. Paper, $14.95. The word cornucopia most appropriately describes Natasha Saje's second collection of poems, Bend. The collection is replete with diverse formal strategies, sensory and visual details,...