Three Poems
Don Draper sells his 1994 Jaguar XJ6 Vanden Plas
I am selling my 1994 Jaguar. The engine and transmission are in good condition. The only problem I’m having is that the car starts up then it shuts off sometimes immediately or it dies down. I’ve changed several components such as fuel pumps, crankshaft position sensor, ignition sensor, master airflow, purge valve, fuel, pressure, regulator, fuel filter, etc. I don’t know what’s going on. Don’t have time to deal with it, my loss will be your gain. I am selling the car as I am looking for serious inquiries. Only I have a clean Maryland title and hand. I’m selling it for 1100 or better. I had the car for three years. It has given me no problems. I was driving it one day and then she cut off, but she came back on, but she didn’t stay running long. Before it cuts off.
Happy Arbor Day
I miss back when people could smoke
indoors, that way we could smoke
in court, not that we have any pending
trials, but just in case for the future
The First Black Person in Hoosiers (1986)
is a bastard, is Gene Hackman’s
son, the other school’s point guard.
I don’t care if it takes the Indiana
National Guard. The kid’s mom is Black
too. He even looks like a Eugene
in the face. Or a more earthy
disregarded version
of the same person.
Sylvia Jones
SYLVIA JONES (b. 1994) is the author of Television Fathers (Meekling Press, 2024). She serves as poetry editor for Black Lawrence Press and is a senior reader for the journal Ploughshares. Her writing can be found in Smartish Pace, American Poetry Review, DIAGRAM, Shenandoah, The Hopkins Review, Common Place Poetics, Poet Lore, The Cortland Review, Strange Hymnal, R&R, Mountaineers Books, and elsewhere. Jones lives and writes in Baltimore, Maryland, with her partner, writer and translator Agata Ambrozewicz, and their buff tabby cat, Theo.
Agnese Guido
Agnese Guido (Copertino 1982) lives and works in Milan. Graduated in painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, she has participated in several exhibition projects in Italy and abroad such as "Italian Painting today" (Triennale, Milan), Untitled Art Fair in Miami, and several personal exhibitions in Milan.
Her work has been published by Artmaze Mag and Elephant Mag in London and in Layout Magazine, ATP diary in Italy and American Chordata in the United States.
Her work is an intuitive research on the symbolism of images through painting and drawing; seeking the poetic and at the same time paradoxical and disturbing side of reality, she tells us stories in which the gap between objects and human beings is nuanced and malleable, as well as that between image and word, taking us into an anthropomorphic dimension where objects show us human feelings and figures are pretexts for depicting ideas, as in an allegory of the contemporary.
Her most recent research goes towards a more mysterious, evocative but at the same time carnal dimension in which the depiction of the human figure and the body is more frequent; in fact, the unpredictability of the subjects is a key element of her research as it constitutes the intuitive nature of his approach, aimed at building a personal universe in which the subjects are both the characters that inhabit it and the codes to decipher it.