…she goes into the living room, turns on the lights. Outside the trees are merging with the mist. It is dusk, a time of melancholy.
– Sheila Kohler, from “Casualty,” Stories from Another World (Ontario Review Press, 2003)
long has paled that sunny sky
echoes fade and memories die
autumn frosts have slain july
everything really is about communication...
this post is not about love or isolation or anything like that. this post is about how if you email your professors they will give you extensions on assignments, and if you do not email your professors they will not give you extensions on assignments. but it can be about those other things too
“She eats the hearts first, before they go bad–as all hearts will.”
— Jessica D. Thompson, from Circe’s Lament; “Diana, Slade, Kentucky c. 1975,”
Apparently we’re at 100 days of lockdown now. Some decaf and shared workspaces at home on this gloomy afternoon : - )