“It was a simple matter of form—a task to find an assemblage that did not require so much sincere connection, so much watching the sun gather together, so much feeling of air. But how wet bird displaying by the drain pipe, how husking tulips over the sink. We’re all carrying disgust at our own corporeality but still have to carry it forward.”

“The Girl Who Became a Rabbit” (Hub City Press, 2024) Emilie Menzel