got vulnerable in this week's newsletter writing about the ICE detention facility in the florida everglades.

my family's been affected. how long until it's yours?

www.possibilities.news/alligator-al...

Is there a link between #ClimateChange & increasing risk/severity of #wildfire in California--including the still-unfolding disaster? Yes. Is climate change the only factor at play? No, of course not. So what's really going on? [Thread] #CAfire #CAwx #LAfires iopscience.iop.org/a...

“A few months after my father’s death in 1983, my mother sat down with me and drew out a watch I had never seen before.“

I wrote about losing my father’s watch for the Yale Review’s Objects of Desire series.
yalereview.org/article/alex...

"A Language of New York" - George Oppen

Sex is real. So is global warming. To believe in their reality is an indispensable precondition for making normative claims about them ...  But the belief that we have a moral duty to accept reality just because it is real is, I think, a fine definition of nihilism. nymag.com/intelligence...

"Why should we expect desire to leave us intact?"
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

putting this (15 years of notes on the sky) in conversation with joni mitchell singing both sides now at the grammys www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/02...

“One time, our friend Shane snuck in an entire rotisserie chicken.”

Wrote a short essay about smuggling stolen food into cineplexes, turning a living room into a theater, and the parts of life they don't show in the movies:
dirt.fyi/article/2024...

loved seeing queers kissing at the kaveh akbar reading

thinking about this from @catherinelacey.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...