The Daily Glance
Kim Gek Lin Short's The Bugging Watch & Other Exhibits reads like a dark fairy tale, one in which things never totally become clear. The individual prose poems often are somewhat clear, but they hint at a larger story, one that I could not completely make out. Bits and pieces are easy to see. For example, the main characters are in some sort of relationship. Really, the characters seem like they are out of some dark fairy world. I kept waiting to flip the page and see an Edward Gorey illustration.
Harlan is skinny because his dreams poison his kitchen. Harlen is scared of books.
Or, take this example,:
Harlan Grone is less is human. Harlan plays with a capelike sheet all the way up to his chin. Eventually with pillow on he takes a bow and exits.
In the bed his eyes are warm are humid and Harlan like that very much because Denver is a dry cold morbid place.
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