How Mortifying to be Seen

On perception and the first-person plural

First, a quick note: I’m so thrilled to have had a prose poem (my first!) published at HAD over the weekend, about ghosts and mothers and labor. Link here if you'd like to check it out. :)

Good morning, friends.

This past week, I finished reading Katherine Alcott’s Emergency, her (extremely good) debut collection of short stories¹. Though Alcott’s language…