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For Eddie
If sorrow is a suit, its weight is incalculable. One day he’s gone and you put it on. One day he’s gone and it sews itself inside you. Mourning drapes…
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John Keene's Memory Work
I’m reading John Keene’s Punks: New & Selected Poems. Slowly. A poem a day. Sometimes, a poem every few days. I am still in the first section, Playland…
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Re-Seed
I bought arugula seeds late last year, though I won’t sow any until it cools down a little more. Conventional garden wisdom has it that these are seeds…
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Watching K-Dramas
Like pornography, sentimentality undoes us. You will read a novel with a silly premise—boss asks secretary to pretend to be his fiancée; woman is…
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March 2023

On Fuzzy Clarity
I envy people who experience writing fevers. For 27 days or 29 days or 31 days or 17 days—it’s always an odd number—they do not eat or sleep or shit or…
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Readers Request
Passion Fruit
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Zero Image
I first encountered Carolyn F. Gerald’s article “The Black Writer and His Role” in Addison Gayle’s The Black Aesthetic anthology (1971). Gerald’s…
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On Distraction
A sunbird perched on the bird of paradise outside my office window moves me from what I’m reading to be in the world differently. A Hadada Ibis cries…
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February 2023

Readers Choice: 8
Therapy (better or worse than cabbage)
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