Reckoning with Silence

“Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?” (Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World). “The point of this language of ‘intention’ and ‘personal responsibility’ is broad exoneration. Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant … More Reckoning with Silence

Broken Bread

When I find him, he is baking bread, breaking bread, and he hands me one. It is rough in my hands, oblong. And so are his hands, wrinkled and dirty. They have touched the bread, and I wince. I have applied lotion so mine reach the same uniform texture each day, so when I fly … More Broken Bread