Magnificent Octopus

It gradually dawns on me that I've been denied a destination, caught in a transitional environment, a space between beginning and an end...

(though stillness is another kind of movement; it affects the ground, even if not the wind) The house I grew up in used to be across the str...

"À propos, sometimes when we address a woman," continued the buttoned-up Walter Frommer, "we might gain the impression that s...

The imaginary anthropologist remained with me after I finished university. I would summon her to narrate the simplest interactions when I tr...

It seems easier on balance not to read the news. Some do and some don't, but it's easier not to. When they look at the planet it...

Such that I began to write a book about the real, breathing body of Ravicka, which I couldn't reach by walking toward it and couldn'...

Anticipation, when it occurs, often makes me animated and expansive, as if I am perhaps reviving and honing my senses in preparation for the...