Browsing Category In Sickness and In Health
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Crumbs
I’m prone to guilt, coming as it does in crumbs and great big slices. Or sometimes as the entire pie. I feel it right now as Steven and ...
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Death Toll
In Guayaquil, Ecuador the deaths in early April are eight times higher than usual. The first ones to die are buried in Laurel Oak with satin pillows. Then, ...
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Just Breathe
Dandelion puffs have overrun the front lawn of a car dealership I drive past. I see it on my way home from the grocery store, the only place ...
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The Cowboy Channel
The men focus on their poker hands and their glasses of whiskey, preoccupied, as if the saloon is their shared workspace. No one looks up when the new ...
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Losing Taste Amid Coronavirus
In my big Italian family, cooking together is a chaotic, noisy, raucous production. We bump into each other, fight over the accompanying playlist, and bicker over the best ...
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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 ...
