On Palindromes
Elizabeth RobinsonFirst one surmises arrival and then discloses retreat.
One wonders: why
offer a definition of a thing
whose parameters are already so self-evident–
like a brown paper parcel
delivered to an address that already
anticipates the arrival of a package bomb.
The explosion is incidental to the import of the thing.
The outcome of a retreat that gestures frantically toward its own arrival.
Like a clock, the circuit knows its pivot, but
the bomb, going forward as much as
backward, forsakes the temporal in order
to make its secret manifest.
Issue 14
Global vs. Local
Fall 2011
Nonfiction
Poetry
Eros in Footnote
Matthew Kulisch
Augur of Familial Scenes
Brent House
Household Archeology
Anne Babson
On Palindromes
Elizabeth Robinson
On Grass
Elizabeth Robinson
Consumerism
Janice Worthen
Charting
Anhvu Buchanan
On January 1
Elizabeth Robinson
Fiction
Excerpt from The Fayum Portraits
Kate Moses
Like Nothing
Robyn Carter
Bicycle
Ben Paris
BEYOND THIS POINT ARE MONSTERS
Roxanne Carter
The Sad Sentence
Andrew McLinden
SON OF A FATHER
Tony Press
Art