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Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon (1840-1916) was many things: a painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and pastellist, who, over the course of his career, developed a singular style that fed both the decadent symbolism of the late nineteenth century and the modernism of the early twentieth. His work included etchings of disembodied eyeballs and smudged ballooning minds in charcoal chiaroscuro. From Public Domain Review.

A Little Marshmallow Ghost (and other essays)

They don’t want anything more out of life than to do this great thing, this mindless feat, and reproduce so that the next generation can do this great thing, this mindless feat, and reproduce so that the next generation can do this great—

Nonfiction

To Pete, who crushed my dog’s head with a hammer

The dog’s bark
keeps you awake.
We received
your letter.

Poetry

Lucas

It was a nasty wound, and the medic said he’d need a cane the rest of his life. That was fine, Aubert had answered. He’d be back with his wife and children.

Fiction