Photo: Wgreaves, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Nani and I do the tourist thing: drinkwith Beat ghosts at Vesuvio bar, glancelovingly at one of many book-loverMeccas, and try to read in the loudand dark but for noise-cancelling airpodsand weak, weak window...
Photo:Willis Lam, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The post-modern painting forced into this context of high-key low-brow art again greets you as you begin your shift. A gobsmacked cousin of a Keith Haring hound, its fuel ever-hovering above empty, always catches...
Photo: Mahendra, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Red, yellow, blue — houses by the edge of the northern seaI flip through my notes from ages agoships, mast to mastcourtyards with stairs and lanternsclay noses in a sculpture museumDegas, with his fondness for plump...
Photo: Vincents productions, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Six years ago in a study abroad dorm in Copenhagen I held a tub of peanut butter between my hands while Carissa peeled an apple beside me, we giggled like we were back in the fourth grade. Dipping the...
Photo: Jimmy Baikovicius, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons I am trying to be a flyon the wall of this city —attracted to light but stayingin shadow. I speakwhen I need to, in Spanish,speak Spanish and sayI’ve only spoken spanishtoday. I read Nerudaon the bus and...
