Tag: 2023
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Book Review: “Lost in Obscurity and Other Stories”
Lost in Obscurity and Other Stories by Debasish Mishra (2022) is both touching and bittersweet. This book is not just…
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Black is a Most Beautiful Color
Black is a Most Beautiful Colortoo. Through the prism of science, whiteis the presence of all colors, blackthe absence of…
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Workshop of Wills
The tables in the work hall at MetLifewhere lawyers drafted wills for all pro-bonoyawned laid out in roomy rows too…
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Amas Veritas
Blue blushof midnight skin—cold flamebeneath fingertipsand wanting lips—stokes fireand love spellsunder Moon’sicy ring.Burn with mean houra minutea second moreand fadeawayinto…
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Indigo
The curtains pullcross the landscapebehind my eyes—the way they doon days like this—emergedfrom sleep,from splashes of waterin the basin,and black…
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Intolerance: The Second Flood
rain falls from its sieve, separate but equalreflections mistaken for my faceat firstat lastpassing headlightsswing and stretch from drop to…
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John and the Revelator
“John & the Revelator” is written in the style of 19th century cowboy diaries (including unconventional spelling/grammar) with a touch…
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7.7
half-sunk in a bog you take a photo and I say nono no not quite like Amy Winehouse but if…
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Reruns
I sit by the fanthis May afternoonalive foreverin the greenof our home-made salad(spinach, chickpea,yellow pepper, tahini),sore and sweatyfrom carrying airconditioners…
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Commonplace Coffee on a Sunday in July, 2021
Masks encouraged. Totes hang on mustardwalls, all checkered. We’re in shorts and summershirts. I touch the bristle of my beard.We’re…