There are drips and drops in the fluctuations of power, changes in the voltage that become physiological responses in the body. Muscles will tighten or relax. Membranes will moisten or lay rough. Tissue will fill with blood or soften. Collection of the fluid had become tantamount to pleasure. It allowed you to be free from our machination, unshackled. It allowed you to be present.
You could say that an economy had formed.
I kept forgetting you aren’t the one who likes Diet Coke.
You don’t love 2000s horror. You didn’t tell me about watching movies with your dad while we drove to San Diego for the second time. READ MORE
Wild barbarous men began accumulating in the
bogs around town
and the marshland behind my house. At first
they were innocuous.
They were like any other invasive species.
MM) This book is in many ways Gwen Hilton full frontal, full disclosure. In a sense, Where the Breastplate Meets the Blade is an unpacking of the hallucinatory Sent to the Silkworm House through candid romantic and sexual history and angular mnemonic stabs. Rather than charting your evolution as a stylist, I’m wondering if your instinct to open up more and become more public-facing in general has to do with stepping outside of your comfort zone,