I generally link to people I like, regardless of whether or not they link back to me. However, if you specifically approach me about doing a link exchange and then proceed to “misplace” the link to my site, please don’t be surprised when, after a few weeks, I’m going to take you off my blogroll.Continue reading “More Maintenance”
Author Archives: Natalia Antonova
Monday Night Poetry Club
The Guttural Muse Late summer, and at midnight I smelt the heat of the day: At my window over the hotel car park I breathed the muddied night airs off the lake And watched a young crowd leave the discotheque. Their voices rose up thick and comforting As oily bubbles the feeding tench sentContinue reading “Monday Night Poetry Club”
As If the Fact that it’s Monday Isn’t Bad Enough
Requiscat in Pace. He was nuts, but I adored Steve Irwin.
The Great Wall of Indifference
… Is what I’ve erected between myself and all those news stories on how Angelina Jolie lost her baby-weight. The heavenly body of Jolie has eclipsed most real news stories, but I would like to point out that it’s been two years since Beslan, and the Russian special forces are commemorating the occasion by arrestingContinue reading “The Great Wall of Indifference”
“You better keep your head, little girl, or you won’t know where I am”
A dear old professor of mine stopped by to chat about this story. He had read it. He was one of the readers for the Duke contest. He stood there, staring at me in his kindly, near-sighted manner, and a thought flashed in my head: “He knows I was molested, and he doesn’t hate me.Continue reading ““You better keep your head, little girl, or you won’t know where I am””
Natalia A. 