The Whole Thing

by CE Chaffin

Originally published on July 1, 2010

is a nimiety of untold proportions, a whirling globe of radishes, a carnival with a trillion barkers, a moon braying at a palm forest, a thousand-eyed politician, numberless embalmers clutching brake fluid, a porcine ballerina twirling toward light speed like a gyroscopic ham, how pumpkin seeds coat everything, the evaporation of water, salt crust of [...]

Prayer to La Virgen

by CE Chaffin

Originally published on July 1, 2010

La Virgen de Guadalupe’s chintzy frame, gold tinsel nuggeted with colored lights, flashes in concert with the cricket outside. Las Vegas lives too much in Mexico; I should be accustomed to the glitz. The people here are poor, the light is rich and yet this cheezy, plastic abomination (as if we must re-decorate creation, send [...]