Then by Linda Black Manuel Vilas from the Old English classic

from the Old English classic The Wanderer to late Baudelaire via Goethe

– Kevin Sampsell

threaded with lizards and snakes…”

like brief prose anecdotes told in a bar but the apparent normality is edged with disorientation

but can sometimes seem to have no use for them at all

Then by Linda Black Manuel Vilas from the Old English classic"Linda Blacks sparkling poems charm and beguile and then, quite often, twist a small knife. Under a rubric of little involuntary musings, she makes a miscellany of different forms: prose poems, grid poems, extended aphorisms with a sting in the tail, fantastical flash fiction. They toy with nostalgia, trailing threads of real memories into imaginary word gardens bristling with tricks. Words collude allude, slip over each other, with many near misses.