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Spider Dreaming Country
Since moving to my new home, I have dreamed of spiders. Fat-bodied mothers crocheting silvery wombs for eggs. Paul Klee angel spiders, composed blind…
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Dear Patient, on a Scale of 1 to 10 How Much Joy Do You Feel in Your Body?
The Theater of Medicine
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Life is Haptic
Imagine, briefly, that you are dancing. You lift your arms and sway. You leap. You twirl twice, sidestep, and bend. You stop and shake like a dog…
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Curse Breaking is Always Communal
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Becoming Opaque
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The Body is an Ecotone
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Texere-Diagnosis
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Smell Your Way Home
Sensory Maps and Smell-Scapes
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Tromos-Omorfia
Season of Terrible Angels
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Curse Breaking is Always Communal
This past weekend friends descended to celebrate the launch of my novel The Madonna Secret. My new home is a soft lap planted between fields of wild…
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Excerpt from The Madonna Secret
The Madonna Secret has officially been published!
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Becoming Opaque
Ecdysis, Vision, and Shedding Selves
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Migrations
on leaving the Rondout after five years
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Texere-Diagnosis
Against healing as separation
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