“At the Barycenter of a Pomegranate and a School of Jellyfish”
Against my forehead the glass is cool and I am grateful to the train, grateful to the world for standing still while I move through it, for once, grateful to the questions in the window for not rattling my teeth in my face like pomegranate seeds in a metal mixing bowl.
“The Defense Cascade”
Humans are far worse at recovering from fear responses than animals. We create representative heuristics, imprints of our trauma that live on in our brains and muscles and spider-silk nets of nerve endings.
“Dead and Dying Light”
We are moths, ribbons, wheel-spokes, and the fire is the hub.