Making a fetish of phantasms– I catch glimpses of you reflected in store windows of archived avenues… as the earth burns with composting memory, we listen to the wind-pitched speech of rifting rain. From the mere notion of you, much less your arrival, I wonder: Why did you call me to this place … a [...]

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Although, I have made my home in being lost, I recognize you: You are: The homunculus of my aspirations, lost as well, squatting amid the ruins of my towering rage. Granted, like you, my prevailing sense of self has been besieged by contretemps and coincidence; even more like you, I am enraptured by the distraction. [...]

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Although my mother fled Nazi Germany, as a child, on a Kindertransport, with a few family valuables sown into her clothing, and I was brought up on the myths and hagiography of the Zionist state, I, over time, came to recognize the folly of the whole colonialist enterprise — the folly of ethnic exclusion and [...]

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