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Somewhere in Southern Europe
Somewhere in Southern Europe the pink is more pink, and a man weeds his garden rows in hot sun while wearing no shirt, but still socks.
Bird Flying, I’m Walking
On empathy, liquorice, birds, and when leaves fall
Thirteen Objects of Affection
1. A glass container with a metal lid, around seven inches tall, which I think is supposed to be for shaking out small amounts of flour as it has nine…
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Nine Songs from Home
The first song, an inability to sleep peacefully. Where, normally and for the most part, a person might expect to fall asleep swiftly, calmly, with some…
Finistère, France
A short non-fiction from a past summer
A Street Three Times
The room of the house that I’ve been working from has two windows, one facing northeast, the other facing northwest. For this reason, it is also the…
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Companion Piece for No.225
The morning of January 20th I wake, and the snow is gone. It is as if I dreamt it being there at all, and the only evidence of the -9 temperatures is…
Seven Landscapes
Surprising emptiness, mundane observations, and birds as usual
I Never Learned to Dance Like This
It has been strange to try and comprehend the facts: that any baby with fingernails smaller than the smallest currants could exist at the same time as…
Last Unseen Season
The tension of mountain valleys, geese, and various other noticings
September Landing Lightly
Riversides, and carrying a bee back
Love Letter to Foliage
A short fiction
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