He’s losing the lot all over again. New routines do not exist. It is mature. Everything chiseled into stone gets digitized, perhaps. Logarithms asexually inhabit the whole thing—nonplussed. The unnamable becomes ineffable as It’s damaged. We are the fabric, stitched together in storms to be torn asunder, too fast and weak for immortality. At one’s private end being embraces Its self, tumbling into the nakedness of a future dreamed. The babe is gone, but the dog worries the child into hiding somewhere in the street.
Further Reading
1 by Catullus (translated from the Latin by David Macey)
Who gets this little, witty book just sanded smooth with pumice stone? You, Cornelius, since you put a premium on nonsense— like way back when you tried to cram, bold man, all time into three volumes: a tricky and exhausting art. So take this little jest, it’s yours; and pray the Muse will help this […]
Revision
by Lior Torenberg
I’ve never been able to write about a particular heartbreak that occurred over five years ago, and so I enlisted the help of AI to do so. I was inspired to do this by Vauhini Vara’s essay “Ghosts” (published in The Believer in 2021) in which she does the same in order to help process […]
Mood Piece
by Alice B. Fogel
The subject of the fan is a mere suggestion, open to interpretation. Painted bat wing, paper leaf, it knows its way in the dark. Both shield against light and quickener of flame, the fan’s act of concealment perfects flirtation, graces grief. Folded in on itself, dipped in clear water, then—flashed and […]
