Rictus on Video

Rictus on Video Herman Beavers (bio) In the new video Flyy girls forget how to cry silk lining the heart veers toward the pigment of violence slashes passing for eyes words ending like shadows along uneven ground assassins capering in arrogant shade done by themselves hair minimalist & modern force a matter of appetite balance devoid of words times when there is nothing doing a mind will pare away the superfluous leave the difficult the very core of pleasure a conversation eager to convey comfort convenience simpler & quicker than hate fantasy defiles indifference & in Iowa there are men swallowing lozenges of revenge & bitterness the backs of their minds sticky like the floor of the balcony @ the Alhambra's Saturday matinee all the things they mean click click clicking across the eye's imperfect curve Herman Beavers Herman Beavers is author of Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of James Alan McPherson and Ernest J. Gaines. Uptown Conversations: The New Jazz Studies, Contemporary Black Men's Fiction and Drama, Cross Connect, and Peregrine are some of the anthologies and periodicals where his critical articles and poems have appeared. He is an associate professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Copyright © 2005 Charles H. Rowell

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