Browsing Category In Sickness and In Health
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Our Snail Mail Lady
In the doldrum days of shelter-in-place, our mail carrier Peaches was our butterfly. She flitted from house to house delivering good cheer along with our letters and packages; ...
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the long way to a small, angry inbox
Normally, this wouldn’t matter so much. A few nights ago, I logged into an old Yahoo account that I habitually checked and used for retrospective purposes: I’d had ...
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Into Love
Every kiss that was ever kissed— every smile, every baby’s delight, a first step, a face that hides and comes back, a belly laugh— every morning of ...
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Retreat
The first quarantine happened when I was fifteen and my white blood cells were raging in my brain. Autoimmune Encephalitis— abrupt and unrelenting madness caused by a finicky ...
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Pandemic
Some saw a raven with ruptured feathers. Some smelled the homeless millions pressed inside a drop of blood. Some felt dark planets tilting. One planet, covered in octopus, ...
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Arts 0
The Disintegration of the Face of Memory
after Dali We’re in gym class with arms spread open turning like flattened windmills making safe space making enemies. Everyone I pass carries an unreasonable appendage propped in ...
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Love Letters 1918
Dearest Olive: Once more I am going to the country club with Ernest Vogt, but there are about two minutes before he comes for me. We paraded through ...
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What We Worried About
Articles written by experts told us never to rush our children, but some mornings we couldn’t help shouting at our children to Come on, why are you so ...
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Ghazal in the Year of Corona
What can I do to stay clear of Corona? How can I not draw too near to Corona? Praying that someday we’ll all meet again And not ...
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Pandemics and Pasta: Sustenance in the Viral Age
Tonight, I am roasting ripe Heirloom tomatoes with onions, garlic, and olive oil in a 400-degree-oven while a blend of mushrooms, garlic, and white wine bubbles in a ...
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Onion Skin
Day 6, coronavirus quarantine, 6 pm: You stand over the kitchen sink, a large onion in your left hand, a Global Sai kitchen knife in your right hand. ...
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My Rabid Boy
after Yehuda Amichai My rabid boy: Each evening he thrashes my fancy, catches my every idea in his teeth. He tears them. I am his woodland. I ...
