There is no mistaking those paw prints. They’re from a bear—no doubt about it. Tom and his patrol partner, Kersti, often spot the animal on the monitor during their night shifts. From their command center in Piusa, in southern Estonia...
& this is what we mean when we say body count. first, a swaddling. then, betwixt damp & ordinary gums hangs a mess hall. we offer a martyr to the blowtorch’s bright kelvin spit and call it supper. an autopsy worth its salt.
Melon Floyd was born out in the Salts, 1881, in the border country between Winnemucca and Susanville—before they recorded Black voices on acetate, before his knife-throwing contest with Charlie Long, before “Laughing Man Blues.” His father...
Stars curl in the shape / of a scorpion’s tail and sparrows / float like gold flecks over the fields. If it's true / death is just a portal through which to pass letters.
how many of you sitting here think some woman of color Black Brown Yellow White woke up this morning thinking “Goooolly … I can go to the airport and clean toilets?”
Somewhere on the internet you can find a photograph of Meshell Ndegeocello sporting a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan, “Meshell Ndegeocello is a band.” The doubled meaning is perhaps obvious enough: She is herself a musical outfit and...
