A Mind in the Wake of the Storm: “My Intention” in Red Canary Magazine

(Click here to read the original essay in Red Canary Magazine.)

On the morning after the election a nation woke bleary eyed and beheld what it had wrought. Some despaired, some delighted, some turned over and went back to sleep, assuming they would wake to a different, less ridiculous truth. I typed. There was nothing normal about what wound up on the screen. “Why all the fire imagery?” my friends asked. I told them it was a Rorschach of my brain, which was apparently burning. But I think the better answer is that fire is a process, at the end of which which something qualitatively different remains. In the end, this is a prose-poem about not-knowing. And trying, just for a moment, to be OK with that. Here is the essay, or whatever it is, published in the wonderful Red Canary Magazine.