Colder, Bitterer (live)
Cate Marvin reading “Colder, Bitterer” live at UMaine Farmington, September 18, 2008.
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You, Cut Open (live)
Cate Marvin reading “You, Cut Open” live at UMaine Farmington, September 18, 2008.
Flowers, Always (live)
Cate Marvin reading “Flowers, Always” live at UMaine Farmington, September 18, 2008.
The Secret Act of Reading a Comic
(After Auden) The old comics were never wrong. Right always defended by the hero – polished like Adonis. In one moment Thor is paused in flight towards his foe, the motion lines steadying his resolve as he hurtles ever closer. The next moment Mjolnir, his mystical hammer, slams against the Black Knight’s helmet with a […]
Nightcrawler Buys a Woman a Drink
You’re staring, jaw-dropped at my tail. And yes, it’s a good twenty inches long and moves like a serpent in heat. Touch it. I’m no devil, honey, I don’t got no souls, just the smoothest, bluest fur you’ve ever seen. Don’t mind my buddy here, he looks angry all the time, and he’s got eyes […]
Missing You, Metropolis
It makes me think about Clark and how he’d handle the situation. Not just the bending steel and flying out. Clark could smile. That Boy Scout thing…but the boy doesn’t have Clark. He has me. – Batman from Batman #608 Tellers held by gunpoint hurry to open vaults and registers. I’m face down on the […]
Luke Cage Tells It Like It Is
Don’t believe everything you read. The exploits you find in my comic are no more probable than snow in Sunnyvale. I’m not as black as you dream. But a body has to make a living. And I play the part better than any. I know the dangers of believing every shade of black you see. […]