Fragmentation Grenade: The Violence of Hybridity
With thanks to Nomi Stone
Nomi and I come together on hybridity — a form, a site, where disparate elements...
Dispersal
a symposium of seedsclimbs on the gustsshaking the cypressesand satellite dishes,land to be flattenedby a work boot.skitter, sciurine,to a patch of dirt. it is...
Getting Older
My father used to say, when I asked about
his younger days, that he didn’t remember.
I find myself using the same words.
The laundress hands...
Particles: A Love Story
The theoretical physicist John Bell found that we can’t tear entangled photons apart. Even in region and space, particles can be...
The Accidental Pilgrim
Day one of my synagogue’s Jewish heritage tour and we trudge through Kazimierz, which was until WWII Krakow’s vibrant Jewish quarter. The...
Among Various Lives
This version has no soldiering father, no mothermuttering in the dark bedroom, gin-stokedinto daily rants and hungered sleep, nobig-eyed sister, no sullen...
Butterfly Kit
Dear Brush-foot Butterfly Farm,
Thank you for the caterpillars. They arrived safely, 2 per Food-Cup, along with the Butterfly Enclosure-Net, Drinking-Sponge, and Instruction Sheet....
