The man used to walk four miles a day, two hours at first, less as he got stronger and thinner, to defy the sense of rules that dictates higher challenges as the ability climbs. Rebel mind in a rebel body. Not even Plato’s
Variations on a theme—from the subarctic up to the heavens, across borders and off the grid. We begin in the north we expect and drift confidently elsewhere, exploring not just the idea of knowing where you are, or where you aren’t, but who...
I didn’t say I loved you but I did and also him, the one who stole away, with all my sacraments wrapped in his curling laugh, thief of my night. We find ourselves together, cobbling a mystery of fleshes
The squirrels deny themselves from front and back and only word into view from the sides when their outline rejects the coup of geometry. From the south we delight in the polar symmetry of their foggy tails cupped by rounded hinds.
The gentle tremor that has begun now in my left hand, between thumb and forefinger, is not history. Its seed lies buried deep in sleep, in the neurochemistry of sleep which traces its faint salt patterns on the stone of my soul. Stone of my...
From a block away in Los Angeles’s Chinatown, we can just barely make out a sound unlike any we’ve ever heard, as if from underwater—melancholy, dissonant, otherworldly music. It pulls us toward the corner of Broadway and Alpine, where an...
Of all American cities, New York is perhaps the most visually iconic. Even its public transportation is embedded in the national imagination, with arguably more people having seen the map of its subway system than maps of their own...
