Roberta had a dream that you had died
A negligent conductor of a train
Decided to jump the tracks by your house
And –– boom! –– into your living room she went
You had just gotten back from a long jog
Around the river that you love so damn much
The good news is that you don’t feel a thing
One minute, you’re there, resting your thin feet
And the next, you’re beneath eight tons of steel
One of the spookiest parts of the dream,
She said, is the TV that you just bought
And that you’ve tuned so typically to HGTV
Escapes the blind wrath of the wayward L
Imagine: Carter and Genevieve ignoring you
Anthony
Mariani has just completed his first work of long-form fiction, The
Bloomfield Diaries, a hybrid novel excerpted in Smallwork, Ben
Marcus’ literary magazine, and in No Record Press’ annual Red Anthology.
Anthony’s fiction and poetry have also appeared in Calamari Press’ literary
magazine, Sleepingfish, and in The Foliate Oak. A Columbia
University grad (J’98), Anthony makes his living as a journalist, whose arts criticism
and reportage have been published in The Village Voice, The Oxford
American, and Paste magazine, among other publications. He lives
with his lovely wife Dana in Fort Worth, where he is associate editor of Fort
Worth Weekly, one of the last remaining independently owned alt-weeklies in
the country.
