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Comfort Food
Lentils and barley,water and salt,split peas and pasta—pure to a fault— stir until clouded,season to taste,boil and then simmer,nothing to waste. Greens can be added.Time’s on a loop.Towers have...
The Postponed Conversation
Some days her mind begins to reappear. Today you feel her halting fingers trace, along your skull, the curls she used to fear, although she raised you in a...
One Small Step
i.m. Neil Armstrong “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind” —Neil Armstrong, 1969 “Software finds missing ‘a’ in Armstrong’s moon quote” —Associated Press, Oct....
Mother’s Day Remembered
Far from where your sharp glance and mine could meet, a laundromat on Rue des Pyrenées was where I learned to fold a fitted sheet” which, in a different...
Icarus
If no one on the ground or ocean was injured when he turned to a noun what was the loss? His wings were waxen. He should have known the...
