Life In A Story.
{source} “My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch of the girls in the ghetto had to do sewing each day. And if you were found with a book,...
View ArticleI Want To Leave You Behind. {poetry}
{source} I want to leave you behind — you and your midnight television, technicolor food, unwashed dishes. I want to pull a Ralph Waldo Emerson, escape to a cabin and inhabit the absolute. I want to...
View ArticleHuman 101.
{source} Human. What does it mean to be human? In other languages, like Spanish, there are differences in the level of being: Is being human more like ser or estar? Sometimes I am human/I am always...
View ArticleLate Nights & Earlier Mornings. {poetry}
{source} I will be awake at 3:26 am for you, fighting the undefined slope of my calculus homework or the more terrifying undefined slope of my future. Fear of sleep doesn’t stop me, just fear of...
View ArticleA Closed Beating Silence. {poetry}
{source} My brother likes to say that your sternum is the only thing holding your chest together, that if your sternum breaks right down the middle in a vertical line, the tension of your ribs will...
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