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Orion’s Belt Interview: Eleanor Ball (July 2024)
Sara Omer: “The Skeleton Café,” describes the everyday goings-on of an endearingly dreary café for the undead that feels very familiar. What was your inspiration for this poem? Eleanor Ball: My inspiration was my favorite coffee mug, which features a whimsical drawing of a few skeletons reading. These skeletons sport trendy sunglasses and jaunty berets,…
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The Skeleton Cafe by Eleanor Ball (July 2024 Poetry)
Clicking teeth keep time in the skeleton cafe. Every table is lit by a yellow candle, which smells like embalmed women and cannot be blown out. The skeletons speak in the grating of bone against bone, skulls half-hidden behind muddy newspapers proclaiming tariffs on devil-made textiles and obituaries of the newly twice-dead. A skeleton rasps, …