"Kevin considers the word ‘terracotta.’ Matches it to the squash-hued clay he’d watched Colby abuse for the credits he needed to pass his art elective."
Read More"She wears a lavender, polyester tank, and she is glowing."
Read More"But I am not with him, and he is not with me."
Read More"The space between the house and the barn, between his two respective lives, is lined with oaks and acorns."
Read More"He'd already gone down the black hole; by graduating into the world, he'd graduated away from himself."
Read More"The cranes and peonies begin to move in his plane of vision. To clash into each other, along the box’s red Washington apple skin.
Read More"You take artifacts from each place you visit."
Read More"I am still . . . predisposed to prefer Belle to Cinderella, Katharine Hepburn to Grace Kelly."
Read More"It was always somewhat for myself, before I was me . . . . Always somewhat to please that cross-armed child in red."
Read More"So, here I am, a bundle of ironies, a product of privilege and yet its opponent.
Read More"The creamsicle color of my youth, however, has run off into warped, postmodern poolings I would not have recognized from the porch where I licked the dessert from eight-year-old knuckles."
Read More"If there is a way to lose and do it with grace, I don’t know it."
Read More"The color her name carries is one which originated in forests, has been usurped by J-Crew field jackets, and is found folded into Greek dolmas."
Read More"When the banana flowers arrived they looked like that, too, solitary in their parakeet-hued overabundance, lonely like my father."
Read More"I stoop over a plate of average pancakes as means of protection."
Read More"I wanted souvenirs of a homeland I always rejected, but in the place of shell-case boxes or shot glasses painted with the red bean paste and hunter green hues of redwoods, I’ll have lessons to share."
Read More"Blue means blueberries and the ceiling at Grand Central."
Read More"I dreamt in nothing but pink."
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