“I, SNOW LEOPARD is both a lyric and an elegy. It is easy to imagine its lines being loudly hailed in whatever country the poem finds itself in. It’s publication comes at a time when people everywhere have begun to wonder what a voice like this, suppressed for centuries, wishes to s...
“I let my guard down. After completing my assignment, I was returning home and was ambushed by a few Avalon squads. I was able to hold them off and escape but I suffered these wounds due to my carelessness. The Brigade has never been this aggressive against us, so I didn’t take ...
If you had asked me this question when I was twenty two and staring at the bottom of some bottle or glass, nursing another broken heart, I would have told you that I don’t know, but certainly more than a month. And the arbitrary selection of 30+ days would have been born of having...
There’s a story my father loves to tell at large family gatherings where he has no business sharing it. The first house my parents ever lived in was in Morningside, Bulawayo. It was suburbia, but middle-class suburbia. This meant we had large enough yards to lend the semblance of privac...
I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder into foam, smooth to green glass over sunken rocks, shatter to foam again. I was fascinated by how it sped by and yet was always there; its roar shook both the ea...
Rosa, on the other hand, establishes itself a lot more delicately than its predecessor; the synths feel glassier andGelb’s hyperpop aggression is toned down for a more contemplative feel. This was the album that gave me the clearest feel of location out of the trilogy; I could clearly vis...
for fear of a constantly harrowed heart…..You can brick up your heart as stout and tight and hard and cold and impregnable as you possibly can and down it comes in an instant, felled by a woman’s second glance, a child’s apple breath, the shatter of glass in the road, the word...
It takes nought to do and still the dreams shatter but not the ability to. It’s eerily quiet at the moment and despite how hard I try, this is a moment that just won’t disappear. Where do broken smiles go? Where are they buried? Forget the fading applause, the night is certain ...
T.A. Kunz “I Like Big Books and I Cannot Lie” “Keep Calm and Read a Bethany Lopez Novel” “Don’t Eat the Food–Through Glass” “I went to Area 51 and all I got was a stupid implant” Fair Feathered–Paulina Ulrich Curiosity Quills ...
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