Ouija in Suburbia / Lori Lamothe

  dancing girl press, 2015$7.00  Lori Lamothe’s poetry has appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Blackbird, CALYX, cream city review, Emerge Literary Journal, Seattle Review, Stone Highway Review, Third Coast, and other magazines. She is the author a full-length collection, Trace Elements (Aldrich Press), and of two other chapbooks, Diary in Irregular Ink (ELJ Publications) and Camera Obscura (Finishing Line Press) She lives in New England with her daughter and a red Siberian husky born on Halloween.. Ouija in Suburbia Your fingers keep going numb and the spirit haunting our coffee table refuses to spell its name. Every letter is luminous but only if you wash the board in the light of gullibility. Suspension of disbelief—as when the plot calls for a marriage to disappear behind the page and emerge out of nowhere, suspended in sheer air. I know the hand is quicker than the eye. I know the fallacy of reliable miracles. Facts my medium of choice: numbers of chi