We tend to use the word “bitter” to denote taste, temperature, or feeling. Often, though not always, bitterness carries a negative charge, bringing us into proximity with a mostly undesirable set of feelings or experiences.
ENUMERATE
INSIGHT
The Vanishing
Maybe this is why people are obsessed with twins: they have a sense of loss, something missing, someone missing.
POETRY
Math Sestina
I can enumerate my body /
and it’s comforting, almost.
MICRO
Pink, Beige, and Amber
Yesterday, he caused his eighth accident. Tomorrow, his tenth.
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Of Discord
All to the core you have me bitten, as if I’m the one to suffer from dysentery or rabies.
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remember: there’s no way to gain more Innocence Tokens
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dearest toad,
when the pelicans launched into orbit, I looked at you sideways, circling and circling, the motion of the birds described by some differential equation.
your friend,
frog
