Work by K.A. Keener
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The Stanford Marshmallow Study
Posted in Gossip!, October 2009
Researchers gave kids a choice between one marshmallow now or two marshmallows later (provided they could resist eating the first when left unattended). Marshmallow success, they say, is a predictor of success later in life.
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Brown paper packages tied up with string
Posted in Gossip!, October 2009
Buying an éclair at a bakery and watching them wrap it in an éclair-shaped box with red string is certain to make me smile.
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I Give Away
Posted in Poetry, September 2009
metaphor the way they snap as lid-tight as tupperware smoothed to a trusty seal you can take it away put it in your bag you can trust it jostle it, bump it on the stairs, crowd it on the train, it won’t spill, it will hold the last of the broth of truth left on [...]
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Return to Spring-Loaded
Posted in Poetry, September 2009
What did Lynda Hull do when she couldn’t imagine a space to dam the onrush’s tock-ticking? Her downbeat, the retreat, doesn’t open its dark embrace. David said she bruised the poems in her last book the way the skull darkens the ripe fruit in the still life, which isn’t so still really, decay and return [...]
