Mourning Songs Are Love Songs
This essay is excerpted from Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World. I PICKED BLACK RASPBERRIES FOR GLEN when he was dying of cancer on a cot in his Continue reading
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Nameless Season
I HUNCH IN THE PORCH SHADOWS, feeling for the rough side of my key. After a few exploratory taps, I ease the blade into the lock then turn to face the Continue reading
The Crows of Karachi
To depict a loveless and macabre world—a world of the scarecrow acting as the Lord of blood-thirsty crows, of the harridan decked out as a beauty queen . . . a Continue reading
Almost Animal
In Queens, New York, there is a room you can visit where dead animals stare plaintively at you. Two bears, black and brown, stand on their hind legs, claws outstretched. Caught Continue reading
Wild Darkness
FOR TWENTY-SIX SEPTEMBERS I’ve hiked up streams littered with corpses of dying humpbacked salmon. It is nothing new, nothing surprising, not the stench, not the gore, not the thrashing of black Continue reading