Halfway Down the Block, Your Father
Stops. It’s just congestion, he says. I have congestion, not naming it— his lungs as gauzy as a party dress— […]
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Blink
I was small and half-believed I could disappear just by closing my eyes—no, I wished for it fervently: that my
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Grand Fugue
After the hospital released me with a warning, I walked around this busy city that hadn’t noticed I’d been missing,
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What Makes a Saint a Saint?
don’t you think it is bad how I wake up craving my phone with thoughts of my lover before longing
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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
To fritter loneliness, my grandfather chews his sticks of cigarettes and finds company among the boulders at our veranda, hitting