“We thought tennis was ok.”
in which socially distant basketball is a thing; the unexpected and unnerving sight of your neighbors; what Ray Bradbury understood
“We wonder if we’ll see her again.”
in which L dies; the spring equinox arrives; Italy deaths peak
Running with ghosts
I was not the only one entranced by the weird crystal blueness of your eyes
A poem for the end of the world
We burned the koalas out of existence; they screamed loudly as they died, but that wasn’t enough to make us stop. The whales we choked with plastic were more silent, […]
Obituary
I read your obituary and it was awful, basically just a long list of names, some of people that you hardly ever saw, much less knew you liked strawberry ice […]
Bluegrass and the Random Wonderful
I tend to avoid crowds successfully enough that I forget how being in one can so easily restore my optimism. One of the best things about San Francisco is Hardly […]
Birthday Apocalyptica
I saw it was your birthday so I bought this card and felt the need to write a note in it – something beyond Happy birthday. Like, how I saw on the news that the hills are on fire again and five more species have been declared extinct and another glacier melted.
This is why we impeach
Last year at the Oslo Freedom Forum, a man named Fred Warmbier took the stage. It was a bit strange to see a middle aged white American male on that […]
Harry Potter and The Run for Congress
Originally posted on The Stepmom Chronicles:
We are talking on the phone when you remind me, today is National Book Day. Until that point, our conversation was like every other…
Imagine.
Many political candidates are asking us to imagine a very different future than the species has ever confronted. From Andrew Yang’s pitch for UBI in a world where the biggest […]
