Blessed be the millwrights on the open hearth that awaited him; the nurses and elevator operators; secretaries; plumbers; electricians
The solitude. In the summer, I dine. On hot dogs. And fast balls. Go Dodgers!
The spring we didn’t make love,
I started following baseball—
radio on the kitchen table,
me in that old night... more
I joined the crowd and bought an XL.
And everyone in section ten is standing
Everyone was welcome. No one was cut
in this league.
We are fifteen as haev no idea
what our bodies can do...
get a tattoo of a horse
because you feel good about yourself
"Poetry," "Cleaning the House," and "Leaving Again"
"I Have No Idea How Tall I Am," "Corner Table," "Everyone Says Things Like," and "In the Future Every Olympian Will Be Gay"
All day Iphigenia
so far from the man I came to see.
Haven’t we tired of famous men? Shouldn’t I
have my shoulders back, chin... more
the guy on NPR says. He says that carrots are still living
when you bite into them, that they have the... more
"I didn't want to ever be outside of this moment. I knew at some point I would look at the picture I'd just taken and feel an overwhelming sense of loss. I thought as long as we could manage to stay inside this particular hotel room, to avoid our phones and every person with whom we'd ever come into contact, we would continue to feel whole. We were revolutionaries, goddamnit. These were our accumulation of beautiful moments. Before the world fractured us. I don't expect you to understand how I became Brad Pitt in that moment, how we all just flew along down the highway. Bandits. Ex-patriots. In love with this countryside, if not this country. Paper Moon. The Last Picture Show. All of this shot in black and white. Only the final scene in color."
FOUR NEW ESSAYS BY CHLOE CALDWELL! Plus the original essays that made you fall in love with Chloe!
Jason Phoebe Rusch is a queer writer from the Chicago suburbs. His full-length debut Dualities explores gender and patriarchy from the perspective of a man who was socialized and is currently still read as a woman. He is interested in complication and nuance and messy human failing, his own and that of others.
