I tried folding up and taping a Siemens vacuum cleaner bag over my mouth and nose, something The Wirecutter said to use only under “desperate” circumstances.
(nonfiction)
And not one protection / has come to them / nothing sound
(poetry)
“‘The Deep,'” writes reviewer D.M. Kiely, is “a harrowing fantasy epic of hate and war, and a gentle, nervous love story.”
(review)
There are only two things I can think about right now. One, a Carolina wren…
Width of a queen-size mattress: five feet
(nonfiction)
Last week, we had a grammar unit on expressing desires and regrets. I wish, we hope, if only.
(nonfiction)
I am not unhappy in the house all day.
(nonfiction)
I count the bodies and try to make sense of the math: 144,926 is not a lucky number.
(nonfiction)
How many pictures? How much? How long?
(nonfiction)
It takes our breath away, virus or not. And nobody knows how to make the virus go away. And nobody knows when it’s leaving, or what it will look like tomorrow.
(The Loop)
