On Keeping a Plant Alive Out of Spite
The fern was supposed to die within a month. It is still alive, entirely, I suspect, because I refuse to let it prove me right.
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Issue 0, No. 2 · Summer 2026
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The Archive as Confession
A review of a new biography that treats its subject's discarded drafts as more honest than any of her finished books.
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The Almanac, in Fragments
Every line here was lifted from a real almanac, rearranged but never rewritten - the found poem as a way of listening to the past on its own terms.
Talking with a Woman Who Restores Stained Glass
She has spent thirty years putting broken windows back together, and says the actual skill is knowing which cracks to leave alone.
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From subculture toward culture. From identity toward practice. From proclamation toward evidence. From talking about the Work toward doing the Work.
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For Whom The Bells & Whistles Exist
Before the smartphone, an army of telephone operators quietly invented the etiquette of instant connection we still live inside today.
