The negotiations and renegotiations had begun. Ultimately, I landed on a single ask, “as long as they are healthy…” Though what I really meant, but could not say was, “as long as they are alive… as long as we are alive.” In reality, I wanted more than that, I wanted a birth […]
leaving, take & motherling: fragments from a failed care plan
leaving then this is a treatise on leaving how it is inside but needs to get beyond i’m reading a novel on leavings to escape what is the rest of the world: 700,000 souls departing & those who don’t believe the validity of this disease i’m […]
Battle Fatigue on the Frontlines of COVID
I grew up in a town with a population of 900. We knew everyone; they us. I grew up knowing who died, who became a parent, who divorced, whose barn burned and the date we’d all meet to rebuild. I lived on a lonely country road ten miles from my high school whose last stretch […]
COVID and Locusts and Protests and Love–A Community Nursing Perspective
My last patient had screened negative for all COVID symptoms in the waiting room, and his temperature was 97F, like everyones. We could set ourselves on fire and the touchless thermometers would still read 97.2, 96.4. Before entering the exam room, I looked at the stack of PPE, which we counted each morning. I […]
A Portfolio of Writing by Professional Nurses
Above: Diane Kraynak, R.N. A PORTFOLIO OF WRITING BY NURSES: Tina Carlson • KD Seluja • Sally Helmi • Christine Riley • Jane Slemon • Renata Bubadué • Diane Kraynak • Geraldine Gorman • Charles March III • Mary Ann Thomas • Sarah Comey Cluff • Brenda Beardsley • Shirley Stephenson • Nicole Aicher • […]
Après le D&C and Isabelle Huppert
Après le D&C When I braved the wind for unnamed fruit, the sea and trees for shallow depths, the answer clung to my inner thighs as I turned to building an empire. I was sad to be done and glad to be scraped, and my books remained unopened. The first was on the art […]
The Houseplant’s Life is a Nightmare
Under the mold creep and roach scuttles high in the crown molding corners cobwebs attest to life and living not mine and not my own The porch keeps its own counsel angrily hiving umbrella wasps and carpenter bees squeeze their fat abdomens into expressing shit in the crack between column and cornice Though […]
Unlooking Glass
i used to associate iran with death since we only went back for funerals. i thought the tinsel altars around the capital city were for some summertime festival, not memorials for dead young men. my mom never corrected me. instead, she bought me smarties, which for some reason was what my cousins called m&ms. […]
‘Trans World’ Is Redundant & homos stay homos
‘Trans World’ Is Redundant My boy accosts the Wendy’s worker who ma’am’d him through the intercom at the drive through. I’m a man! he says, you’re a boy! I say, and teen says sorry! Between suiciding around cis men and playing dead, I find my footing dissociating into fungus. Skirt boy’s hot mic monologue […]
The Story & Mushroom
The Story He has killed, the man, a doe. To be sure, it was an accident, but there was one private moment, just before he slammed on the brakes, when he hit the gas. Just to see. It is dusk. It will be years before he makes his confession. The eyes of things that […]
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