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She Doesn’t Want to be Called a Human

I must admit, I was incredibly selfish before I had my daughter. As many—too many…

Making Our Own Weather

Pyrocumulus clouds rise above fires that burn with special intensity. The clouds are multi-colored—shades of…

Dead Deer

I found her on her side  in the mucky pond behind the house, bedded in…

We Were Warned

I remember every moment of my mother’s fury—rare, but terrifying—when she felt that her children…

Spaceship

The unmasked lead their gaggles of unmasked children into Target. They walk out pushing red…

Water

The day the baby arrived, it rained so hard the streets flooded and the taxi…

The Memory Ruins: On Nathalie Handal’s Volo

Handal collapses the borders between surrealism and realism, the cinematic and the ordinary. And the use of repetition amplifies her global beats.

Concerning the Sea Stars

MONDAY 3:27 PM MONDAY 4:13 PM MONDAY 4:20 PM MONDAY 5:01 PM ~ TUESDAY 3:18…

Seasonal Affective Disorder

There’s a certain smell I associate with fall, a crispness that carries melancholy. These fleeting…

Basil

On those afternoons when I feel most fraught, broke as a joke, I breathe with the trees.  Yes,…