If I were a preacher—if I had a sermon—if I were a protester, a radical in the totalitarian regime of the self—if I were fearless enough to be jailed—or fearless enough to break out—if I were Aretha, or the organist on her gospel album, or her reverend father—if I had a voice like that—a voice with a dream, the kind of voice that screamed—then I’d scream you a song about—
That sweet fluffy thing.
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Begetting
Spring was done. Wood frogs, peepers, spotted and blue-spotted salamanders—all explosive, early communal breeders—had fanned back out from the wetlands to their three-season forest haunts; tadpoles and salamander larvae had […]
On the Book of Sand
In Borges’s story “The Book of Sand,” a man trades the family Bible for an ancient book that is always changing so he can never find the place where he […]
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