Grand Fugue
[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/MurphyFugue.mp3″] After the hospital released me with a warning, I walked around this busy city that hadn’t noticed I’d […]
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What Makes a Saint a Saint?
[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/TonjiSaint.mp3″] don’t you think it is bad how I wake up craving my phone with thoughts of my lover
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I Fell in Love with an Historian Once
I fell in love with an historian once. It made sense on paper. But we all know what history does
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Finally, My Grandfather Undid Darkness
[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/SalawuDarkness.mp3″] To fritter loneliness, my grandfather chews his sticks of cigarettes and finds company among the boulders at our
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Afternoon
[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/OpaigbeoguAfternoon.mp3″] Early morning brings the sounds of children sweeping front yards, water sloshing in clay pots held high on
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Slut
[audioplayer file=”https://admin.rattle.com/audio/OlisakweSlut.mp3″] i Grandmother said there is a slut trapped in every woman, a wild taboo that must never be