Special FeatureJoanna ValenteC.T. McGaha, special feature, poetry

C.T. McGaha: Music for Autopsies

Special FeatureJoanna ValenteC.T. McGaha, special feature, poetry
C.T. McGaha: Music for Autopsies
Markus Spiske

Markus Spiske

music for autopsies

 

i've been listening to

brian eno     a lot     recently

 

also

 

i've been thinking about

death     a lot     recently

 

it's not subliminal messaging

in ambient music that's doing it

 

it's just that

 

i've been thinking about

death     a lot     recently

 

when i die     i want

to be listening     to brian eno

 

so it's natural that

every car coming     across

yellow lines     a warning light

sometimes     i admit i am

the car coming     across yellow lines

 

i'm halfway through

music for airports 

where everything converges

     slowly     i haven't cleaned

my glasses     in quite awhile 

there's nothing     truly

sinister about dying

 

it’s     just     natural

 

like the '99 volvo wagon

wobbling tires     on a potholed road

 

like the rhodes piano

played     in a soft room     to no one

C.T. McGaha is a writer from charlotte, nc. he's the founder and co-editor of VANILLA SEX MAGAZINE. his work has been featured in Hobart, Juked, 90s Meg Ryan and other literary journals. he's also the author of the chapbook, GUTTERBOY RIDES AGAIN (Ursus Americanus Press, 2017).

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Christine Stoddard: Mortem et Virginiana

Born and raised in Arlington, Virginia, Christine Stoddard is a Salvadoran-Scottish-American writer, editor, and artist now based in New York. Her work has appeared in Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Bustle, Native Peoples Magazine, The Feminist Wire, the New York Transit Museum, the Condé Nast Building, The Huffington Post, and beyond. In 2012, the Puffin Foundation honored her with a national emerging artist grant in photography. That same year, she debuted her documentary film, The Persistence of Poe, at the Poe Museum and on PBS-Richmond/Charlottesville. In 2014, Folio Magazine named Christine one of the media industry's top 20 people in their 20s for founding Quail Bell Magazine. Her book, Images of America: Richmond Cemeteries, which she co-authored with Misty Thomas. also came out that year. This year, The History Press published her book, Hispanic and Latino Heritage in Virginia. 
 

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Ashley Mares is the author of Maddening Creatures (Aldrich Press, forthcoming), The Deer Longs for Streams of Water (Flutter Press) A Dark, Breathing Heart (dancing girl press), and Killer (Ghost City Press, forthcoming). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Stirring, Whiskey Island, Sugar House Review, Glass Poetry Press, Prelude, PANK, and others. She is currently completing her J.D. in Monterey, Ca, where she lives with her husband. Read more of her poetry at ashleymarespoetry.wordpress.com and follow her @ash_mares2. 

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