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When Teresa laid wide awake in her sleeping bag on the floor next to Andreia’s bed, breathing her ice-cream breath and asking her to tell another story, sometimes Andreia wanted to sit up, flip on the lights, shake the kid hard, and tell her: Don’t you know? People pretending everything is fine is the first-best sign that things are about to go bad.

The river in pieces—pool, riffle, run— / holds thousands inside itself, still undone, / motion captured.

During my childhood, I traveled to the Caribbean sea with my parents. That is where I saw coral reefs for the first time.

Hello from the ocean. Which is to say, hello from a salutary winter beach walk. It’s gotten pretty cold here on this coast, but a walk by the shore is often still the ticket.

in the picture we are thirteen and barefoot, standing on the black stones that swell out of the beach near treyarnon bay in cornwall.

It wasn’t easy to see, to say: I carried / in my body all the silences: the king laughing / while the men climbed out of my mouth….