Ouija Board Transcripts
Claudia Lamar

Imagine the board cut from driftwood. The Querent’s fingers like octopus tentacles around the stem of a wine glass. Pushing and pulling and peering through the glass at the carved alphabet. The Querent is pretending to be a priest lamenting the letters in shallow graves.

Querent: Tell me your name.

Ouija: I am a greek god.

Querent: Forget truths and bring me myths.

A shipworm guts through the letter O.

Querent: and what about this magic?

Ouija: Here is a transformation spell. When it is dark, walk naked into a forest and on all fours howl like a wolf. You will either become a wolf or get eaten by one.

Querent: (laughs wildly)

The spirit spells out a poem. It is about old things and the color of orange peelings. The Querent becomes suspect. The spirit tells a love story, and the Querent is a believer. One last question.

Querent: (inaudible)

Ouija: In the core of your nerve.

CLAUDIA LAMAR lives in Las Vegas where she collects heavy hearts. She is an Associate Editor of Red Fez Publications and the Founding Editor of Phantom Kangaroo. Her poetry has been published in Clutching At Straws, Convergence, [NERVE], and Houston Literary Review. More of her work can be found on her site: www.claudialamar.com. 

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ISSUE :: 2 ::

Ricky Garni ::	How to Write Letters About God, pt. 1
	Yoo Hoo!
Larry O. Dean ::	The Sound Effects Bible
Nicelle Davis & Cheryl Gross ::	The Post-Partum Sideshow—or—What Do I Know About Being A Freak?
Tammy Ho Lai-Ming ::	You Don't Know Me
E.E. King ::	The Case of Dr. Dalton Plastic Surgeon
Dodie Bellamy ::	from “Cultured”
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz ::	List of Things You Have to Do
	The Happy Fun of Love
Stacey Wilson ::	Photographs of two found poems
Claudia Lamar ::	Ouija Board Transcripts
	excerpts
Claudia Lamar & Elizabeth Leavitt ::	fortunes + dibuixos
Caitlin Roper ::	Ransom Note Poem #5
Molly Gaudry ::	Die With Me When I Die
Travis Macdonald ::	Chapter Four from “The Story”

Homage to the Strange Spirits

Clarice Lispector ::

from The Passion According to G.H.