Esteban Noel

September 2025

What songs do the victims sing?

Sep 10

5

August 2025

The Messenger-King

Pearl gray in dull violet, a full moon watched her oracle’s final vision:

Aug 25

1

July 2025

I Can See Him Now

My brother never came home from the war.

Jul 24

June 2025

The World of Robert Altman

[In honor of the 50th anniversary of Nashville]

Jun 11

A Deep Melody of Night

Let us wander into a deep melody of night—summer, one-hundred years ago:

Jun 10

May 2025

Abounding in Song

The one-eyed brute, the absolute zero, slouches his 15-foot frame across a stone run of white rock, as he’s wandered all these years, alone, navigating…

May 27

Across the Llano

1918— Domingo knew the language well.

May 8

Dolus

It starts on the way home—night, along well-trod sidewalk, little boxes like movie frames going underfoot, gray and empty, the ones that play after the…

May 2

April 2025

Alien Ruins

…awakening on two feet, in a daze, torched beneath a white sun, dragging my feet across alien sands, rattled, dizzy, but I can walk forward—and begin…

Apr 4

March 2025

THE ANIMUR: SLOAN 1

Every Friday night, hopeful, in a dark corner of her room, Ilda leaned forward and watched, transfixed by her host for the evening, a 700-year old…

Mar 21

February 2025

Showroom Display on a Dying Planet

It was all set up just like real life.

Feb 28

FEBRUARY the 6TH

On this day, exactly 114 years ago, former actor and 40th President of the United States, Ronald Wilson Reagan, is born on the second floor of the…

Feb 6