The package was waiting for me when I got home from work late one Wednesday evening, a smallish, brown box with chicken scratch for a return address and bound with what must have been a […][…]
“Our manhood was defined by our acquisition.” (The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison) My first pair of “expensive” basketball shoes came right before my eighth birthday. It was near the tail end of my family’s annual back-to-school […][…]
Intimate relations between two men—one younger and one older—unite the following poems by Scott Bailey and David McLoghlin. Those intimacies, though wildly different in nature, both interrogate the role of silence in expressions of love […][…]
“…what is usually called hypnosis is an experimental model of a naturally occurring phenomenon in many families. In the family situation, however, the hypnotists (the parents) are already hypnotized (by their parents) and are carrying […][…]
