Natalia Antonova

On Voting for the First Time

I had this stupid grin on my face the entire time. It was raining, Mapquest screwed me over on the way to the polling station, and, to top things off, my pants started to fall down as I scurried over to the ballot box. So there I was, wet and tired and with my buttContinue reading “On Voting for the First Time”

Men Who Write About Prostitution Tend to Piss Me Off

… Probably because they’re men, and, in some way, my prejudice tells me that they will never see women who sell their bodies as human beings. Particularly if the men involved are priviledged Americans and the prostitutes are from “the wrong side of the Iron Curtain.” Nevertheless, I liked this latest offering on Common Ties.Continue reading “Men Who Write About Prostitution Tend to Piss Me Off”

Monday Night Poetry Club

I’m in a golden, autumnal mood. Hot cider, warm boots, warm puppy, and now this. Spring & Fall to a young child Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leaves, like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! as the heart grows older It will come to suchContinue reading “Monday Night Poetry Club”

Just Like Honey

I’ve been having these chocolate-covered, mint-flavoured, sand-splattered Daniel Craig fantasies. I can’t concentrate on anything. We also went to the beach: barrier islands, North Carolina like I hardly know it. On the phone, my mother was saying that she saw three corpses on the side of the road in barbaric Ukraine after a car crash,Continue reading “Just Like Honey”