The Impermanent Surface of Lake Scintillate
Some days the water is sharp, each and every spot that glitters like razors slicing across our bare skin.
Five Stages of Shedding a Skin
The only reason anyone gets a new skin is to become someone else.
Clarity, Art, and Life
It functions as a kind of magnifying glass, making vivid what is otherwise blurred and vague.
The Skeleton Cafe
Clicking teeth keep time in the skeleton cafe.
The Necessity of Writing Place
It is what turns a disembodied abstraction into life.
Oak for Her Bones, Alder for Her Limbs
In the morning, she left. I stood watching long after she was out of sight.
The Sail
But it tempts me / with whispered promises of adventure
With the City on Her Shoulders
If only someone took the time to examine her city a bit closer.
We’re All Mad Here
Broken teacups in her wake
Lessons from Ghibli
Every leaf and tree, every beam of sunlight shining upon a forest clearing, feels novel and unique.
Beautiful Dreamer
Rose vines reach for Lydia.
The Ongoing Relevance of Fairy Tales
More important than the origins of tales, though, is the fact that they are still here and still relevant.
Apologia, on Forked Tongue
dragons dream with our eyes open
Blood, Bone, and Water
The hedge is a dark mass on the horizon, heavy with scarlet roses.
Democracy and Science Fiction
On or about April 1978, the division between popular art and critically acclaimed art solidified.
syndrome()
Galaxies watch as I float and blink and float unblinking.
Toward True Moral Complexity
Disposing of the idea that protagonists must be virtuous and good is far easier and simpler than contemplating what they should be instead.
The Fox’s Lover
There is no need to wait in the weeping wind.
But First It Is Sung
It is not enough merely for the universe to be: it must also be shared.
nightlove
now, the moon washes her skin in stars