In this microessay, Kimberly Elkins explores the intoxication of a dangerous adolescent game and how it colors all that follows in the character’s life.
Poet GC Waldrep shares the experiences behind his poem “The Arrhythmias,” including horrible dreams, stolen peaches, and a childhood book with a bright turquoise color.
Where there was a meadow,a shore. Wouldn’t that be beautiful, he thought— to return by sea, which of course implies leaving, or a kind of reliefif we can allow it. And it’s true, the beginning of a painting may also be the beginning of a room. How we followed the canvas toward a doorand there …
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It takes very little to become a difficult patient. Having questions, feeling unexplained or anomalous pain, being uncajoled, seeming nervous for one’s first dose of chemo. The nurse looked at me sideways as I walked into the chemo-complex, and asked, “Are you all right?” as if I should have been. As if I looked excessively …
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