Evelyn, an unfortunate name for a boy, knew how to make the dogs howl. He’d been aware of this gift,…
November 2021
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Our Own Country
You and I live with Alu, a strawberry-blonde dog, and Esteban, an ebony cat, in a house that is too large for the four of us.
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The Slow Work of Unlearning
I am headed somewhere other than our sense of things,
where I am supposed to believe in notions I do not believe—