The Long Form

Tag: healing

  • The Long Way Around

    I learned earlyhow to carry things without handles.  How to keep my hands busyso no one offered to take them.Because no one offered to take them.  In stores, I walk the long way around.Pretend I meant to end up here.Maps live in my head—jumbled, overlapped.So do exits,clearly labeled, flashing.  If I need something,I wait until…

  • A Brief Account of Wonder

    November 25, 2025 12:39am I didn’t notice when my heart slipped out of me. It must have happened the way everything important does—quietly,in between breaths,when the world is still deciding whether to wound you or wonder with you. One minute I was moving through the forest,thinking about absolutely nothing important—just the way the air smelled…