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Carolyn Hembree

Fever Dreams in Tongues without Skulls

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Brutal and unnerving. Fever Dreams in Tongues without Skulls is a contemporary murder ballad writ large. Indeed, the news from here is...

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Brutal and unnerving. Fever Dreams in Tongues without Skulls is a contemporary murder ballad writ large. Indeed, the news from here is oldish—ghosts, serpents, plagues, quests, and blessings—yet the vision comes singular, cosmic, unhinged. Hear it again:

“In white-stitch Holy Ghost spirit jeans
in an Outer Space revelation vest
stitched with twelve quarter-size mirrors she steps off
the half color half page ad
into the passenger seat
where the triple shag floorboard tries to drown her ankle
boots her thighs
where by the dome bulb by the AM dial
by the Chevy headlight off the lagoon dump
Sears Catalog Girl undoes her silver-turning-
green Leaf & Vine
belt to reveal—
not some copperhead gut tattoo—
rings of shingle blisters
she half moans
her head half turned on the seam-busted headrest: Ain't we all hiding
some kind of plague under our fig leaf, Vitalis Cleb?”