The Thick Waiting

I sit in the thick waiting, in the silence inside the witness role of an invisible thing heading our way,...

photography by Susa Silvermarie

Hail the Traveler

How briefly we live in a body and bathe in these graces: the flash of a vermilion bird; the forgiveness...

photography by Susa Silvermarie

Her Skin

As the morning sun touches the mountains across the lake, I imagine touching them too, running a giant hand over...

For You Who Cannot

I read that you are rounded up for “hijab violations”, raped and then silenced. If you make it back home,...