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  • Ice encases trees on the shores of Lake Superior

    Haunted Season: a note from pandemic winter

    February 19, 2021

    Winter is for hauntings. It is the season of candle light and barely days and long, cold nights. A dark sky spits snow and trees dance in the wind like spirits, clattering on the roof…

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  • Detail of an Armenian Monastery, Noravank

    Thicker Gravities: on my year in Armenia

    February 19, 2021

    Seda met me in the muddy road of a village near Armenia’s capital, Yerevan. She spoke and I blinked back at her, 23 and wide-eyed. Seda laughed and whipped out Google Translate and her high…

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