January 2012
elegance doesn’t mean being noticed, it means being remembered.
– giorgio armani
what if, by duane ackerson
we taught recombinant dna to recombine, turning tumors into birds that freed themselves from the cages of our bodies, misery flying out the window, a flock of blackbirds that only comes back later to tap at the pain, begging for a few more scraps of us?
or never returned, burrowing down into the ground like certain owls to sing their own dark songs almost muffled by the earth in their mouths?
you wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
– toni morrison
Start by leaving home. It’s not where the heart is,
but where the hard edge is....
– weisse wiese: how to fall in love, by susan elbe
Mitchell saw Madeleine crossing campus in the purple twilight. She was with a...
– jeffrey eugenides, the marriage plot