I get home and Kremplus is dumping rotten meat out the window and screaming. I tell him he has to get the fuck out right now and he punches me […]
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I get home and Kremplus is dumping rotten meat out the window and screaming. I tell him he has to get the fuck out right now and he punches me […]
We are different, me and him.
On a rainy afternoon in Midtown, I ordered a cup of coffee and waited to meet Jesse Sheidlower, lexicographer and the former editor-at-large of the Oxford English Dictionary, as well […]
THE HAGUE Rembrandt’s Night Watch You are ten years old in The Hague in Amsterdam, sitting on a bench and telling your eight-year-old sister stories. She has refused to take another step […]
Mourning turns you into a crazy person. Everyone learns this sooner or later, and that fall I got my first real turn to live it. The day before she died […]
Sweet Talk Draw a line on the floor thus, an imaginary line in the sand. Tell him he has to straighten out, be more accountable. “I’m not an accountant,” he’ll say […]
photo cred: Bustle When I read Jeanne Vanasco’s debut memoir, The Glass Eye (Tin House, 2017), the book left me crying on a subway train in Brooklyn. When I met […]
Old Testament You tell me you are ruthless and vengeful as God. Then you grab me and kiss me hard on the lips. I love God I answer, tasting the […]
“…How you are / you & I am the gap […] The mold of things / To come / Blossoming & kinda stubborn like god” (from “last summer there was some hair in the tide”
Unrung Bells Good Housekeeping reports the most popular novel the year of my birth, Miracle of the Bells, told a story about a second-rate actress who died playing Joan […]
SOLDIER DOWN Under the sun umbrella on the patio deck, fanning herself to keep the heat off, Milly reads correspondence from long ago. “These dog days in New Britain are […]
The Big Red One I stepped out of the hotel where Georgia O’Keeffe lived in New York City and into the urban canyon. The blue light of the clear skies […]
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