I have been a stranger in a strange land.(Exodus 2.22) Much of life is spent here-and-there, the archipelago of somewheres twisting-turning-winding from shore to sea to shore. We travel, we move, we stay, we leave, we’re lost, we’re found. Traveling, we go from one somewhere to another, ‘there’ rather than ‘here.’ Even when we’re ‘there’… Continue reading

Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred. (Lord Byron, A Sketch) For my grandmothers. For my grandchildren. These are the so-called “power doctors,” backwoods specialists, each claiming to be endowed with supernatural power to cure certain specific ailments. They seldom attempt any general practice, and most of them take no money for their services,… Continue reading

The unfettered clouds and region of the heavens,Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light—Were all like workings of one mind, the featuresOf the same face, blossoms upon one tree,Characters of the great Apocalypse,The types and symbols of Eternity,Of first and last, and midst, and without end. (William Wordsworth, “The Simplon Pass”) Being-trans is neither… Continue reading

The flow of time is always cruel. – Zelda, Ocarina of Time If I were an ocean, I’d part. Time arts the many, seawaves tending to fall (and no one hears it). Grief parches, babblebrain topics again-and-again the one-who-when — if I stay frozen, maybe the earth will still. Gristlesift hot cast iron, what enchants… Continue reading

Happens is never once. – William Faulkner, Absalom! Absalom! I grieve the daughters of the valley. Stormy skies spell silence overhead. Bodyblood golds while the reaper repents. Memories deepwater the trench of my heart, the bonegallows’ child who tempers thou art. I do not haunt says the moth to the caterpillar. I cry. Starlight signals… Continue reading