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Tag Archives: trauma

07/07

I remember a particular summer many years ago, when my Dad was still alive.
The sunlight on the grass, and the hood of our little white car, and my tall father all in white getting out. I’m sitting on the stone steps leading up to the balcony and watching and knowing that something is wrong but [...]

Eulogy for sunlight

For me, memory is diving down. Sliding down towards the deep. Surrendering thought of where light and air is and just pushing down, down, down, to see how far you can go, whether there is a bottom you can touch or something tangible to bring up as a prize, like handfuls of sand clutched in [...]