By Sarah Gundle Something made me think of him. For days now, it has been bothering me: I can’t remember his name. I can recall many of our conversations, the gentle character of his voice, the resignation in his eyes, but not his name. I’ve wracked my brain. I saw him almost twenty years ago [...]
By Matt Pasca Lobsters mate for life—on menus they are called lobster. And all’s fair in fowl: duck called duck, chicken chicken—the winged as unrenamed as the sea. But cow & pig & deer, stars of the big screen as Elsie & Babe & Bambi— we unmammal their meat with abstraction: Beef. Pork. Venison. At [...]
By Phyllis Klein “There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.” – Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things Breaking: Buzz of a bone fractured, burst of a bowl hitting the floor, boom of a heart splitting. Please like me. A dream as it shatters. Please think [...]
