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Fear
Mirage
Someone has died. Someone I loved the way I love my own hands. And I am alive in the bright, fading day, flying above the earth and sea.
May 2019
January 2019
Featuring Starhawk, Frances Lefkowitz, Edward Tick, and more.
January 2019Sunbeams
January 2019The mistake 99 percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.
Boy
When my brother was twelve, I found six mice nailed to the wall of the abandoned tree house in the woods near our apartment. He spent a lot of time there. It seemed to me the little mouse faces were frozen in agony. As though they’d been alive when he’d hammered the nails through them.
August 2018
Intimacy With Fear
If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.
July 2018July 2018
Featuring Lorenzo Milam, Tram Nguyen, Brian Doyle, and more.
July 2018Calling Him Back From Layoff
I called a man today. After he said
hello and I said hello came a pause
That’s What Experience Is All About
You live the first half of your life / Afraid that something will happen.
March 2018
When I Was Invincible
So many times I would take risks that should have scared me but didn’t. When you grow up in a big city with hands-off parents, you become accustomed to harrowing situations. You may even come to feel that the wet plum of fear living permanently in your gut is essential to your being.
June 2017
