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Calf Injustice

Mark Underwood

Calves in mirror

a woman stepping over the storm drain yielded to fashion baring a calf it must be admitted was too authoritatively thick spindles beneath a thick gray pant leg propped up an unpunished pair of leering eyes

2022-03-10

Your Numerology

Mark Underwood

A numerology photo

for Regina Steiner It began fifty thousand years agobut Pythagoras did not have the number.Gibbon did not count it in the risenor subtract it from the fall& Will Durant & Chaya Kaufmandid not count itin four million words and ten thousand pagesof covenants & campaigns of the ages. Omitted in ledgers keptby owners of a […]

2016-11-01

Certiorari: Connectionist’s Path to Rainy Mountain

Mark Underwood

Old document photo

The way to Rainy Mountain is preeminently the history of an idea, man’s idea of himself. . .
What remains is fragmentary: mythology, legend, lore, and hearsay—and of course the idea itself.

-N. Scott Momaday

2012-05-09

19 Inches

Mark Underwood

Equipment racks (Photo Credit: https://flic.kr/p/5oXPB3 )

Once for railroad relays the 19 inch standard conveysof its faded ancestors. But steel racks enclose in formidable pose anything shoulder-width: computer, or woman. He dons stirrups mounting strips reserved a rack just for hermiddle of her middle where he chooses to meddle. Pinioned in rail economy they’re new standards — modernity, manhood, the not […]

2007-10-11

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