Anthony Labriola | THRIFT

THRIFT Thrift, thrift. Will’s word for speed, acceleration, ………. tempo of betrayal, the time it takes to hasten ambition, poison your brother, ………. marry his widow, speed up accession. Thrift is the itchy finger on the trigger, ………. split-second timing of do or die, blink of an assassin’s eye—thrifty shutter speed ………. in the quick […]

Anthony Labriola | UNTAMED HEART

UNTAMED HEART Candles spark and flicker on the Cardiac ………. Unit, one for each year of my mother’s untamed ………………. heart. Her ticker flutters wilder than the rhythms of eighty-eight birthdays before. Beds in the Quad ………. cradle four heart patients, one for each chamber ………………. of the wordless heart. The lifespan longer than a […]

Anthony Labriola | TRANSMUTATIONS

TRANSMUTATIONS* Not when, how or why, but what for, and where to, in the face of chaos and expansion, from the Big Bang to an Unheard Whimper— All Things Counter, Original, Spare, Strange* are rigged in our favour or we wouldn’t be here. Something will come from nothing: nothing to water, water to a single […]