
When I was younger, I thought politics was just a bunch of boring people in suits sitting around a conference table talking on C-Span for hours. Being political involved the option of agreeing to disagree. Right now, I miss those days. I used to be able to go for weeks and months without needing to…
Fear sustains me. I am an anxious mess of convoluted worries and scattered priorities, sprinkled on a heaping mound of tangled nerves, and plated beside a trauma en cocotte. Fear has been the guiding motivator in my life for several years now, and my nervous system is requesting a sabbatical. Fortunately, I’ve been lucky enough…
“You were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve your perfection. At night, your face was forever behind my eyes. And now I see that that vision who kept me company in my loneliness was a hag compared to the beauty now…