[ z ē ' n ĭ t h ] -noun 1. an arch wherethrough gleams that untraveled world…When my grandmother died earlier this year, she left a houseful of memories. There is one particular mnemonic souvenir I searched for before finally leaving her house on Good Friday: a collection of yellowing documents detailing my great-uncle’s archaeological quest for the Ark of the Covenant.
Yes, that Ark.
no news. thanks: reality sandwich
Controversial critiques propel several poems to spots on the list, but Kjralon’s impeccable “i don’t know what for” stays strong at #2, and the lovely “Omori’s Law” debuts at #4. Two pieces from Issue 42 remain on the list, with Nancy Woo’s proving that people just like to click links that have the word “fuck” in the title. Pervs.
The top 10 most popular pieces of writing on Xenith for the week of May 11-17, 2008:
1. I Don’t Know What For by Kjralon
2. Eros and other colors by Rodermus
3. inwardly disastrous by wickedwitch
4. The Leeches by backgroundbob
5. Hymn by GPC
6. there’s a bad taste in my mouth (I’m starting to think you left it) [...]
AUTHOR: Richard Edwards
He had the gun
in my face, night stars
above the apartments dark
and asleep, the four of us
alive and sliding around in the grass.
It’s all I remember from my boyhood.
I was born
at the end of a clicking pistol,
and my friends were my killers
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Priest ascends sky on helium balloons.
Man found burning alive in woods.
