Close Your Eyes with Holy Dread

Blank page after blank page, motives sail by—

parade float driven by a carriage pulled by a pig

and plastic Diplodocus at Jurassic Golf;

a green jurassic palm tree, planted; a yellow spastic monkey, swinging—

a whole procession of them coming.

     Ira Sadoff / In Madrid

     Cathy Park Hong / Ensor

     Joy Gaines-Friedler / Capitalism South Carolina

     D. A. Powell / [the cocktail hour finally arrives: whether ending a day at the office]

     Tom Clark / Oct. 28