To see a living thing,a badly damagedthing, and to fail to understandhow life still catcheshold of it and clings without falling through –like water fallingthrough a bowl more fissure than bowl.Just as a bowlmust be waterproof, a body must belifeproof, we assume,as if...
The System They were not married, but they were part of a system. In it, a certain freedom; outside, nothing. One was built low to the ground, chopped-off black hair, glasses, round face; the other, tall and seedy, a tea-drinker and lover of ancient texts. Fatty lived...
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Spring, 2016. I was broken and exhausted, hobbled by grief, barely able to function. But I would honor the invitation to fly across the pond and abide in the old castle for a season. Perhaps maybe it could reawaken my appetite for life and fill my cup with beauty...
A brim is a category. an expression of tradition, an edge that is not to be crossed. its word is never rebutted: under the brim there is often a head, a house, a rare and arrogant nothing. the head, if that of a cow, is pierced with a steel bolt. the cow is first...
