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In these times of fragments and fragmented times, what are the shapes of our comfort. Built and imagined. What gives boundaries and connection, healing and shelter, familiar pathways and points of rebellion.
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In these times of fragments and fragmented times, what are the shapes of our comfort.No. 29 • Jhumpa Lahiri
A light push, perhaps even a gust of wind, would be enough to send her backward over the edge.No. 29 • Colm Tóibín
Alone in America, / I tiptoe on the blurred line between the First and Second Amendments.No. 29 • Claire Messud
Needless to say—and it was never said—they hated each other.No. 29 • David Hayden
We can return home in our reflections, even when the city we knew, the city we were, has gone forever.No. 29 • Kat Thackray
It is not an argument you are willing to lose, so you say nothing.No. 29 • Steven Millhauser
In the deep hours of the night, a doubt came over some of us, but in the morning we were swept up once again in our desire.No. 29 • Al-Shammākh ibn Ḍirār
For there to be friendship, some wrongs must be suffered.No. 29 • Taisia Kitaiskaia
What I like about you, Larry, is precisely all those things that are wrong with you.No. 29 • Yohanca Delgado
Like memory, language changes. Our words eddy around the things we fear.No. 29 • JJ Amaworo Wilson
“It’s a gift,” said the priest. “It’s an omen,” said the fortune-teller. “It’s big,” said the acrobat.No. 29 • Jenny Xie
We, who are made and unmade / by something we have no control over.No. 29 • Kimiko Hahn
I keep looking out the window / because stopping cannot be seen.No. 29 • Graham Foust
All I ask is to be brave in the face of it / and to be told what else to ask before your answer.No. 29 • Matthias Göritz
It’s incredibly deep, people’s sleep / inside the downpour-machineNo. 29 • Matthew Rohrer
Even the innocent / feel guilty stumbling / up those wide marble steps.No. 29 • Srikanth Reddy
Sometimes I feel for the undead, sometimes the unliving.No. 29 • Kyle Francis Williams
There were holes in the story but I knew they were made by the devil’s horns.No. 29 • Sylvan Thomson
He felt himself to be ill-defined, sketched very lightly on the surface of the world.No. 29 • Vicki Madden
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