I Have a Time Machine
But unfortunately it can only travel into the future
at a rate of one second per second,
which seems slow to the physicists and to the grant
committees
Several months ago, I stood deep in the mountains, straining my eyes to find the
faint river of stars that flow across the dark sky. The ability to see the Milky
Way is
The body doesn’t only keep the score of trauma, as Bessel van der Kolk’s
influential work rightly asserts. Through the skin, bodies soak in sermons about
the passions of the flesh.
…there are the stubborn stumps of shame, grief that remains unsolvable after all
the years, a bag of stones that goes with one wherever one goes and however the
hour may call for