Antonia Stringer

Hachikō

Zoë

Hachikō

Abuelita

You kept eating the ice chips and saying « ¡Mmmmm! » - The next day you were dead - rolling down the hills of the cemetery - huffing back and forth in the hallway - « Don’t worry, I’m finally leaving » - the blurred border of gray - your wavy jet black hair - cheeks getting flushed - the red checkered curtains - we play these little games of hide and seek - taking dainty little bites - My séance, my rules - This recipe makes two pies

Parasomnia

a hive of snorting, mumbling and locomotive bodies - to shift her mucosal reeds out of their whistling orientation - a genetic disorder called Fatal Familial Insomnia - he memorized strings of numbers and would recite them - red-eyed and barefoot wearing only pajamas - I was too ashamed to look at her - waking up in the tank to a roar of hallucinations - the chaotic spread of shadows cast in low lighting - it is they who have disappeared

Is Theorizing Cannibalism Ethical?

a « dire case, » in which ethical axioms are temporarily « tossed aside » - Columbus' rendition of the Carib people's emic name - « cruel » and « ancient » in origin - this is not a language game at all - how similar is this instance of cannibalism to the Eucharist? - humans can be fucked but not eaten, while animals may be eaten but not fucked - non-European people-eating-practices

The Enduring Appeal of Counting Birds

because of the whale - articulated musculature and weightless skeletons and piping song - 670 species seen in North America (that’s good) - « biological species concept » - the « tips » of a phylogenetic tree - Ernst Mayr - ego-driven jaunts by unscrupulous private collectors - Malaria, dried orchids - 426 taxa - your garden-variety twitcher - the limits of ourselves

On Singing

at the end of a long rutted dirt road in Yakima Indian Reservation - there is a romance to the Colorado Plateau - struggle, iron, volcanoes - the ecocentric canon - Abbey had women problems, and so did I - I remember him in wild, grand places - canyons are a vulvic answer to the peaks - a vein of dirt in the slickrock badlands beyond the RVs and mountain bikers