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Selections from When the Catfish Are In Bloom: Requiem for John Fahey by Ed Frankel
Born in 1939 in Maryland, John Fahey pioneered the use of traditional country and blues finger picking to showcase the acoustic steel string guitar as a solo instrument that could play a mix of traditional and non-traditional musical genres. He collaged ideas associated with Bartok, Charles Ives, Indian and Gamelan
Farbende by Ed Frankel
The iron treadles rock and doven
in the flatiron shadows, pressed air and piece work.
Hungry hands move like birds.
Every week the girl who makes the least gets fired.
Chalk It Up To Love by Ed Frankel
And then, hooked up to tubes and oxygen,
She was screaming, catch me Joey, I’m falling!
I picked her up, the heft and weight
Of rabbit bones wrapped in silk,
I’ve got you Rose I’ve got you.
Fall 2008
Two Hawks Quarterly
Issue 2 – Number 2 – Fall 2008
Revelation: A Play in One Act, Philip Charles Barragan II
Characters
Antonio – Cheerful, 41 year old single Italian man looking for a long-term relationship. He feels numb when the subject of HIV status arises on his dates. He has been positive for eighteen years, and that fact