May 2025

There are some wounds that do not heal, some sorrows that are too hard to treat because they are too hard to articulate. The poem and story for this month deal with a kind of displacement, an unmoored yearning that cannot be expressed with facts alone but can be articulated through art. Cowboy Bebop, one of the masterpieces of a generation past, contends with a similar state of existential dislocation, and it has a lot to teach writers today. There is a kind of hazy beauty in sorrow and sorrow in beauty that only great stories can articulate.