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Recent posts
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Pallor and Glow
Color has drained from the face. This feels like a permanent state. I run my hands through water and take them to skin. The mirror feeds back flesh that I don’t recognize. It is tired, lined, mine? Mine. Also, 2020’s. In their sum, the year’s days feel collectively drained of a pigment. Each person has…
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Hiatus and Poem
Hi! Valk Fisher has been on a serious hiatus, which is something I suspect I would write about absent the overexhaustion of pandemic parenting, which, I will still say, has also been a lifetime of magic. Blog post to come on this, sometime! In the meantime, a poem of mine was published in an Oxford…
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On Motion and Stillness
Valk Fisher has been on a hiatus! I’ve been working on a few other projects. I’m back. Stay tuned for regular posts to come. I lie flat, rocking my weight from glute to glute. Beneath the sweat-soaked towel, the water-engorged plastic of my yoga mat inflates and compresses like a sponge. I shift.…
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On Order & Restraint
It was easy to love London. If not for the rain, if not for the food, then for its very particular brand of restrained orderliness. I first discovered the Jubilee Line during rush hour. It was here that I understood British orderliness to be a form of cultural superpower, the epicenter of which seems to…
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Reflections
Hello readers! This week I invite you to check out a piece I wrote for Cambridge’s Varsity newspaper. This blog will be back with more writing in early December. Thanks for reading! Full link below: https://www.varsity.co.uk/features/16594
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