Such awful chances
People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly…
Read More1.5 Bodies
Encounter
The wave of tension that tightened the spines of the thirty-odd commuters on the platform is familiar to any urbanite. I was living in…
Read MoreSo preposterous
Samsa looked down in dismay at his naked body. How ill-formed it was! Worse than ill-formed. It possessed no means of self-defense. Smooth white…
Read MoreTo burn oneself
with static electricity is a surprise: a razor slipped beneath the middle fingernail, a snip of candle flame to slice the skin. The sound says yes,…
Read MoreThis is flesh
This is flesh I’m talking about here. Flesh that needs to be loved. Feet that need to rest and to dance; backs that need…
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Our bodies, our places
I do not know how exact a case might be made, but it seems to me that there is an historical parallel, in white…
Read MoreTo really touch something
Her hands move ceaselessly, gathering, probing, testing. The breast feathers of a stuffed and mounted chickadee are impossibly soft, its beak as sharp as…
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