by Danielle Deulen | Jun 10, 2021 | Lit from the Basement
With the boys old enough for school, Max went and got himself a job, and now we just do not have enough time to do the show proper. We hope to drop the occasional show in the future, but are uncertain if it will be back with the release frequency from before.This...
by Danielle Deulen | Dec 15, 2019 | Lit from the Basement
To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian by Ross Gay Tumbling through the city in my mind without once looking up the racket in the lugwork probably rehearsing some stupid thing I said or did some crime or other the city they say is a lonely place until yes the sound of...
by Danielle Deulen | Nov 17, 2019 | Lit from the Basement
Autobiographical: Another Draft by Jacqueline Osherow It looked like a fifties-movie version of a mutant life form on a distant planet— but I adored it with a needy passion, called it my botanical Halley’s Comet since it would only bloom one day a year or so the owner...
by Danielle Deulen | Nov 3, 2019 | Lit from the Basement
Yours by Mary Robison Allison struggled away from her white Renault, limping with the weight of the last of the pumpkins. She found Clark in the twilight on the twig-and-leaf-littered porch behind the house. He wore a wool shawl. He was moving up and back in a padded...
by Danielle Deulen | Oct 6, 2019 | Lit from the Basement
A wonderful bird is the pelican by Dixon Lanier Merritt A wonderful bird is the pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican, He can take in his beak Enough food for a week But I’m damned if I see how the helican! A wonderful bird is the pelican...
by Danielle Deulen | Sep 15, 2019 | Lit from the Basement
Things that Leave an Aching Feeling Inside by Lee Ann Roripaugh The flittering plop of moths bumping up against the ceiling late at night, and the shadowed, mosaic out- lines of their bodies littering the ceiling light’s bright glass bowl— round, triangular wings...
