Not Working
“Gotta make hay,” we’ll say to each other as we stumble out of bed at six a.m. to milk cows.
Category Archives: New Jersey
The Jersey Shore
Rusty antennae form a kind of industrial crown of thorns, and the typeface doesn’t say “beach day” as much as “we interrupt this program to bring you a SEVERE WEATHER ALERT.”
Do Not Despise the Day of Small Things
Convulsions—shocking, kill-stand-rattling convulsions—are normal.
Smells Like School Spirit
You could smell the hesitant air looking for its next class in all the wrong buildings.
Terminal Restlessness
But grown women usually don’t wail on an eight-hour flight over the Atlantic.
fecundity!
Despite our best efforts, however, okra gets overly large and woody, tomatoes drop to the ground and burst, lettuce bolts, and basil goes to seed.
The Phenomenon of Good Gas Station Subs
Maybe I’m just too easy to please.
Meeting Princeton’s Ghosts
Albert Einstein strolls through campus regularly, I imagine, on his way back home from running whatever errands ghosts run downtown.
Fantastical, Flammable Gas
Like everything magical, though, the airship project was riddled with realities.
Graying
The grate creeks and I move to step off, but it snaps under my weight. I’m falling. I thought I could grab the side of the sidewalk, but I can’t.
