This piece was first published in July 2014.
Almost forty years after its publication, Paul Theroux’s narrative of a train
trip from Europe to Japan, The Great Railway Bazaar, is still bandied
First piece
A red telephone box, in a library
In the box a cell phone
Second piece
A telephone box made of cell phones, in a library
In the box a telegraph machine
This piece was originally published last June.
A writer and professor of medical humanities at UC Berkeley, Marilyn Chandler
McEntyre [http://marilynmcentyre.com/] has authored numerous works—including
Caring for Words in a
each night we see
a shifting flicker
in a house
down the street
the owner traverses
his rooms
lugging butane
and cleaning bleach
in a biohazard waste bin
the blinds are down
but
Nothing else to do, they take a drive
to nowhere in particular, but away
from the suburbs. The car, at first,
protests from its deep chill within, but
slowly, assuredly, finds comfort
in
