It’s a strange thing, to have a relationship with an instrument as complex and fraught as mine is with the harmonium.
Read More& now, spinning in the center of pandemic, what is celebration in an era of loss? Of isolation? She said resilience. I heard re-silence.
Read MoreThe women of Wuthering Heights take up substantial space in their caustic, expansive splendor.
Read MoreWithout a reliance on instruments, a capella is an independent, brave, and vulnerable form.
Read MoreMy Chemical Romance allowed us to exorcise the terror of being weirdos in the suburbs, forced us to rebuild the world in the image of ourselves.
Read MoreThere is magic in the dissonance.
Read MoreMy freshman year dorm room was on the fourth floor, the highest point in the whole building, and in the evening it was impossible to see.
Read MoreMy grandmother always stands in the driveway until everyone has driven away. How many departing headlights have swept over her in the night?
Read MoreWhen I listen to Maggie Rogers’ “Falling Water,” I always hear I never loved you fully in the way I could so deeply, completely.
Read MoreWhen I think of the word hag, I think of the greying light beyond the horizon before a storm. I think of possibility hanging heavy in the air.
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