Matthew Gavin Frank

The Beginning of the End of Hummingbird Cake

In the pineapple is the fiber we’ve been looking for, the sweet yellow threadiness we’d never confuse for stitches, for wound. In the banana is the quickening rot, the rot being the softest, sweetest stage of the fruit.                                                                                              *This is not Hawaii. There are no resorts here. We swim in no ocean but in One …

Drisheen

Call it a sheep, call it a cow, serve it with raisins and a little salt. Inflate the casing with a forearm, yours or your mother’s, blend one serum with another, commingle with the animals. The stuff inside us has a residue, something that sticks to the filter-rib, the plane tickets and palm trees, the …