Published in Newsline in June 2018
In the opening scene of the animated film The Breadwinner, a little girl and her father sit on the side of the street at a marketplace in Kabul, the father selling wares and offering his services as reader or writer of documents of Pashto and Dari. 944 more words
Portland, OR: May 27, 2017
On a trellis erected between
my west suburb neighborhood
& the nearest MAX station
the wisteria vines burgeon… 503 more words
This is neither a beginning
nor the prophecy of an ending
for beginnings & endings are lies
told to the once-living… 303 more words
Published in Dawn, Books and Authors, in May 2018
In an interview, Mackenzi Lee, author of Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World… 1,520 more words
My latest poem “The Parasite” is up over at Liminality. Warning, graphic content.
In comparison to the design of a single (-family) house, or indeed any singular architectural object, housing involves a different way of thinking. The architecture of housing has more to do with systems, economies of scale and multiplicity. 1,031 more words
It is precious. Like the careful holding of a fresh, hand-blown, very thin glass bubble. Warm and soothing. You hold it tight yet, very gentle at the same time. 443 more words
