#eli mandel

[luthienne]

Many girls lock themselves up, / become pantries, closets. / Some, like trees, grow bark, / and others, like rivers, / burble into dimpled pools.

Eli Mandel, “Rapunzel (Girl in a Tower),” as featured in Disenchantments: An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry

[forsoothsayer]

Minotaur Poems II by Eli Mandel

My father was always out in the garage building a shining wing, a wing that curved and flew along the edge of blue air in that streamed and sunlit room that smelled of oil and engines and crankcase grease, and especially the lemon smell of polish and cedar. Outside there were sharp rocks, and trees, cold air where birds fell like rocks and screams, hawks, kites, and cranes. The air was filled with a buzzing and flying and the invisible hum of a bee's wings was honey in my father's framed and engined mind. Last Saturday we saw him at the horizon screaming like a hawk as he fell into the sun.

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Episode #101: Jake Regal

Episode #101: Jake Regal

Eli really likes Jake Regal, but he can't help making the same mistakes he's made before on dates to the Science Museum. From the suggestion "Tesla Coil" care of Damian Anaya. Send suggestions (for scenes, with subject line Suggestion) and for the podcast to [email protected].

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LIVE Episode #4 - Eli Mandel

LIVE Episode #4 - Eli Mandel

Live from the Jangleheart Circus! Eli Mandel joins Jorin to get hyped to hit the dance floor and run through the mantras that ensure maximum ladies. From the suggestion "track suit". Send suggestions (for scenes, with subject line Suggestion) and for the podcast to [email protected].

[theskycallsyourname]

Step carefully through this rubble of words. Can you really say which wrecks were once poems, which weapons?

The Anarchist-Poets, by Eli Mandel