Averted Vision
The world is getting darker
The world is getting darker
The mountains could burn and the sky could smoke. We’d be underground.
"I don't think radical joy feels like happiness."
Before the stove debate simmered, fire formed us.
Failing at home. Rehearsing the truth with my dead dad. Being eaten alive.
For me, scream into a pillow anger is the kind of anger that is good, righteous even, but the sound of it will change absolutely nothing. So I shove the sound of my fury into a pillow, or the palm of my hand or the walls of my shower. It’...