The Old Musician, by Edouard Manet

Baby Boom and Bust

January 10, 2026




Further considerations

[poetry]

Human Skin in Winter and A Rota

By DS Maolalai

I feel the trees grow. the ache // which must echo through timber // and expansion of solidity.

[article]

Telling the Truth

By Randi Schalet

I once told a therapist my father was molesting me. It wasn’t true. I was twenty-five and exhausted, lying awake most nights trying to understand why I felt so sad when nothing in my life was obviously wrong.

[poetry]

Thoughts of Endangered Paper

By Kenneth Nichols

Here I am, looking at this copy of a // two hundred-dollar book.