[ Essays ]


The Silk Road
i.Silks are stacked like a physical rainbow, designs like Sanskrit on water, cool luminosity begging for a caress between thumb and finger. The Antico Setificio Fiorentino is hidden …
Blanket
I can hear Ted Koppel’s voice coming from somewhere, reporting on the violence that I’m seeing with my …
Reading through a Brutal Winter
At the center of Amos Oz’s 1973 novel, Touch the Water, Touch the Wind, is a church fronted …
The Hibernating Homunculus
My mind is blurry when I write. What is writing, where does it go, I do not know.
Does the revolution start in our rooms?
When I was 14, I was first made aware of what happened to the women who were protesting …
Masks & Figures
So on the eleventh or twelfth day finally get out to the street action carrying a small burst of …
On Reincarnation
Thoughts accumulate, and memories such as encode oppositions to oneself, the way which, when thoroughly lost in the forest, …