Completer Disclosure

August 24, 2010

Actually (see earlier posts today), The Anemone Sidecar came together as a magazine when it found its title, taken from this poem published by the nice people at RealPoetik:

“The Improvisers”

Your hair parted like the arcs of a fireboat,

Your hands squared off on your lap,

A window worries by waves,

And I was frightened alright,

Sitting still as a line

A serial dot

A partial shark dinner

While you spit out the bits and pieces

In public.

Then you darkened calculably,

A concentric dart, confident retro

Smirking at bridges and

The foam of my hat,

The fractions of water resolving

In narrowing eyes.

But you were surprised

When you snapped your fingers

That the ambiguous water taxi

Had already left

And was now a bobbing

Anemone sidecar

Sprung from depth to top;

And that this groundling was up,

Postprandially taking the air

In all of her skin.

-KR

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