I wasn’t with my sister that day, days, delivered,
the last day I would have seen my father.
She took an elephant to get to the hot brimming tree land.
The soup
Last month my grandmother died. I knew I’d someday have to say these words out
loud, but, nonetheless, I wasn’t ready to say them. Maybe because she helped
raise me, and
If I begin with purple cabbage as the prima facie evidence I must also begin
with midnight, with me, my brother, my sister, our parents stiffened by a long
car ride. Also here
Try to make sense of what happened when you were alive:
Where was there justice? How hot were the breezes in August?
Where were the altars? To whom was the sacrifice offered?
Who
Culture, that hazy subject upon which this publication focuses, has at its root
the word “cult,” which essentially means a sub-group of people who share the
same beliefs and practices, fostering in this