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Recent posts
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Approximately 24 Questions
Are you cold? Would you like my jacket? Do your feet hurt? In fact, does being so beautiful hurt? Meaning, how painful is it to be so in love? Did the path to love bleed? Do you love life wrapped around a tape measure? Who are you smiling at? What did it take to love…
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Refractions of An Old/New World
You take delight not in a city’s seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours. – Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Photo: Valk Fisher In my few days in the city, I had discovered a new favorite place for breakfast, to which I became instantly loyal. It was $5.56 for…
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Things I Don’t Want to Know
I didn’t know how to join these thoughts up and there was still a part of me that did not want to spend another second of my life thinking (again) about all of this stuff. – Deborah Levy, “Things I Don’t Want to Know” In my mind there are a dozen opening thoughts. I’m…
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Tivoli Park
Phones stayed, uncharacteristically for that evening’s banker set, in purse and pocket. We had wine and peanuts and it was a Friday night, all of us 30-somethings. We had a low-volume playlist in the background. Did you see what happened? Conversation went, naturally, to the latest in local corruption. I had nothing to say, and…
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View from a Folding Fixed-Lens Camera
I suppose I hadn’t given birth certificates very much thought. Until now, mine has come into play in mostly unremarkable ways. France seems to have taken the biggest interest in my birth certificate, requiring a certified, translated copy of the original for the stuff of everyday life. Think job applications, apartment rentals, direct-debits and first…
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