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The Bench
The bench is in the corner of the park where the path bends and the trees are tall enough to make a room. I found it three years ago and hav...
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The Longest Summer
The summer I was twenty-two I worked in a warehouse on the edge of a city I had not chosen, sorting returned goods for eight hours a day. Th...
Affogato
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Inventory of a Morning
6:22. The greyness before the light knows what it wants to be. Coffee, made before fully waking, operated by the hands without the head's i...
Espresso
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Before the City Wakes
The window holds a grey rectangle of almost-morning. Somewhere below, a bus changes gear. My coffee cools faster than I drink it, which is a...
Latte
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What I Learned from Staying
I am, by nature and by history, a person who leaves. I left the town I grew up in at eighteen with two bags and no particular plan, and I ha...
Cold Brew
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An Incomplete History of the Houses I Have Loved
I have lived in eleven houses. This seems like a lot until you consider that I am forty-four, and that several of these were very short stay...
Flat White
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The Cartographer's Daughter
My father mapped places he had never been. This was his work — not exploration, but reconstruction. He sat at his long drafting table in th...