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Affogato

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Affogato Quiet Table

Inventory of a Morning

6:22. The greyness before the light knows what it wants to be. Coffee, made before fully waking, operated by the hands without the head's i...

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Affogato Fiction Booth

Letter to the Version of You I Never Met

I've been thinking about you lately. You are the version of me that stayed — that didn't take the job in the other city, that didn't end tha...

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Affogato Debate Table

What I Would Have Said

To the argument I walked away from, at twenty-six, in a room full of people who were wrong about something I was too tired to explain: you w...

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Affogato Poetry Counter

Self-Portrait as a Series of Small Rooms

Room one: Age seven. A kitchen in a house that smelled of woodsmoke and something sweet I could never identify. My mother at the table with...

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Affogato Midnight Table

Instructions for the Next Tenant

The boiler makes a sound at two in the morning. You will think it is something else. It is the boiler. It has been doing this for years and...

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Affogato Fiction Booth

Notes on Disappearing

There is a photograph of my mother taken the summer before I was born. She is standing in a garden I have never seen, wearing a yellow dress...

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