Author Archives: David Miller
victorias
On the way back home it’s getting dark and I’m walking by la casa de los colque. They were here before this place started becoming barrio. They’re the only family that still works the land, the chacras. The house is all unfinished block and concrete and shit just falling apart. Some of windows are taped [...]
commodified thinking
So many people seem to look at things almost exclusively in the context of their perceived value as commodity or resource.
For example, they’ll say things like “Siesta Key is considered one of the 5 most beautiful beaches in the US.”
This is something my mom has said often.
She doesn’t say “I love Siesta Key,” or [...]
friday fragment
At Monarch K-8 the teachers used to have “jeans Fridays.”
It was the only day of the week I wore my nice pants.
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short story excerpt
I’m writing a short story in the form of an interview. It’s fiction. Here’s an excerpt:
Much of your work is built around juxtapositions, a classic example being the story “C-130.” How did this style evolve?
My earliest story attempts were rip-offs of Amy Hempel. I’d take her stories and then rewrite them using different settings, [...]
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what i did for the first 40 minutes on a Saturday morning after an earthquake that i didn’t know about
woke up around 9. made coffee. put on deerhunter playlist. washed dishes. thought about how deerhunter was from marietta. felt like i wasn’t fully awake. worked on the computer some. remembered lau told me to wake her up at 9:15. went to wake her up and saw her in bed nursing layla. went back to [...]
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el paisano
I was out working on the land.
A middle aged man rode up on a 4-wheeler.
He was looking for horses that had gotten loose.
“Do you ever see horses out here?” he asked.
“Yes, but I haven’t seen them out here in a week.”
The man nodded. He was standing up on the footpegs [...]
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what i did yesterday starting 3 hrs. before sundown
walked to the land with layla.
set up mid.
put blanket in the shade.
hung out with layla in the shade looking at view of piltriquitrón.
started digging postholes.
looked at position of sun.
took off shirt.
kept digging then rested
looked back at layla sitting on the blanket by the mid and felt and thought and visualized several things at once including [...]
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poem to be anthologized in book about the holy land ’situation’
just received an email saying one of my poems, ‘memories of the wailing wall’ is going to be anthologized in a book with the working title before god closes his hand: poets respond to the holy land ’situation.’
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bradford cox performing ‘walkabout’