Rachel Loden

 

Substation Casbah

... A terrific scandal breaks out ... a fuss over a little thimble,” says the Abbess. She ... about passing off the silver thimble as a sexual...

... for evil.” She took her silver thimble from her bag and ...the fourth statue’s finger, the thimble began to gleam. “I’ll ...

... tryst with a phantom abbess, or mist-pale ... is no more silver than old Helstone’s ... sewing and her thimble in the window ... by her brother’s hand

... and turn the gold or silver into gray. If ... tiny little nasty knots. Press appliqué face down on ... under fingers. Wearing a thimble is often awkward. To …

...ROOM 7, put THE SILVER CRESCENT on the altar next...BEDPAN on the drain and press the tap between two chests, take THIMBLE and THE DRINK OF SPELLS ...

... a worn red Bible on the lightstand. ... Mrs. Blackett’s heavy silver glasses. The Abbess was on the narrow window-ledge, and folded carefully on ...

... a comic strip called ‘‘Thimble Theater.’’ ... was Olive Oyl’s ... and vinegar. Don’t press too hard, or the ... Brief History of The Thimble Islands

... explained the Crown Prince. “When I press down on it, it - it busts ... rubbed the tooth through with her silver thimble. Boiled first, of course. And when ...

... alone! You tremble and shake but carry on. After all, if he caught you... nap. “Open drawer,” and a shiny, silver thimble is there. You “Take Thimble” and …

... can also use a silver bodkin, or ribbon threader, which looks like ... redemption reappears, and we press on ... THIMBLE ... to help the Altar Guild

... find enough estrogen to fill a thimble.” ... He wore his turquoise and silver bola string tie. At his side ... my side and languidly begins to press her number. ...

... swag of go again!” She laughed. Silver and bronze medals she may well ... For example, we looked at the bungled robbery.  The Abbess’s struggle ...

... with shillings, shoe-buckles and a slender stick-pin. Thus equipp’d, with no more ... languor, and the pleasures of love. Press’d her contingent ...

... taxi and her new silver shoes glittered” (103). The ... forgotten” (189), recalling the thimble Mrs. Blackett had

... once of the same order, called The New World, in which ... sail in a golden boat, or eat the luscious frangipani fruit, or ...

... put NEEDLE into voodoo doll, drink DRINK OF LIGHT ... She left her sewing and her thimble in the window-seat and followed wimpled fate

... the mother of all maids! ... For a flying enemy makes a bridge of silver.

 

 


Bio: Rachel Loden’s book Hotel Imperium won the Contemporary Poetry Series Competition of the University of Georgia Press and made the San Francisco Chronicle’s annual top-ten poetry list. She is also the author of a prizewinning chapbook, The Last Campaign, and her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Jacket, Overland, New American Writing, the Best American Poetry series and the Pushcart Prize anthology. In 2002 she received a California Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry. Website: http://www.thepomegranate.com/loden/


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