Byline: Serena Alagappan

To Talk To Jellyfish

When she was seven, Kaya said, “If I ever grow up and have my own bank account, the first thing I’m gonna buy is a Christmas tree and then Christmas tree ornaments.”

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Barbed Beauty

“Perhaps we must accept that we are simply watchers of beautiful forms. And if we acknowledge that we are observers, bound by our own frailties and limitations, we may be able to rescue the memory of what was, for an instant, exquisite.”

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Only Noise

“Small items, their lightness measured by just how many/you can lose and not notice. Imagine if we tucked/all the stinging things to our chests and rocked them quiet.”

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30 Minutes

She said she wanted to be 30 minutes from a mountain, 30 minutes from a city, and 30 minutes from a sea.

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Our Fatal Flaws

“It was like my whole world filtered through a telescope when I knew you, all I needed was to look your way to think, yes, everything else is far and unimportant.”

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Love According to Gabriel García Márquez

“Love is a breath, and a surprise, and the common space between two solitudes, and two bodies.”

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Atlantis

Where our voices meld shrill and sheepish at the same time, holding the bird that twitches, wings folded, eyes tight.

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Leon/Levy

Forgiving and living after the Holocaust

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Storyteller

“He had built a life before, and watched it fall apart.”

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Tending

“Or maybe you are stuck staring at the sun, a gap / in the clouds, a yolk poked and spreading in the sky.”

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Nostalgia Architects

“With too much text to see or read, / I imagine the storm of a thousand paper cranes.”

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