The Mending
A boy in a borrowed coat asks when manhood begins. A diver, mending rope, answers without looking up.
Vox Meditantis
Reflections from the Threshold of Reason and Feeling
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The Broth Before the Sun
Eight strokes of rice. Three lanes to the red cloth. One dumpling, kept back.
The Shape of What Was There
Two women. One cellar. A painter who kept her distance. A sculptor who leans in. One word: closer.
The Fountain’s Testimony
A qadi in Fez pours tea for a dead Spaniard and asks whether the sea was ever forgiven.
The Unowed Light
Tangier, 1954. A soldier who cannot sleep asks the city's most invisible man whether people are worth believing in.
The Patience of Coral
A girl on coral steps. A patched sail. A sea that will not say whether the watching was enough.
The Warm Bread at the Going of the Light
A schoolgirl demands the best dish ever eaten. A muleteer offers warm bread, a step at evening, and someone gone.
The Judgement in the Cold
In the long light of a dying shore, a father mends his net and asks what no psalm can teach.
After Every One
A hangman carves his dog in a London churchyard, 1658. After every hanging, she waits for him.
The Plain Account
The dead cannot lie. The living will. She reads what is there. London, 1630.