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On his motorcycle, far from the Prague of his birth, Mateo knows strength comes from speed. To be one with the machine, in a straight line, even in bends. Aerodynamic device, body at the service of wind. Only a calculation error, the wrong acceleration in a blowout, leads to collision. After the crash, he stands […]
The Irish weather demands a black umbrella, but I prefer green over black. I see green in ways the morning light comes up over the green tree divide that separates the city from green-plastic- covered potato mounds. Being a crop inspector is serious business. There’s been a few cropped heads because men with hatchets remember […]
With a bottle of Belgian beer, I stand among pigeon feathers and a choir of darkening leaves, the murky Landwerkanal traveling under my feet, choppy ripples painted with amber horns and a blotch of floating swan. I watch it pass into the mists. I watch the clouds devour a Ferris wheel and a flying […]