“This was when my dad was still living with us, but he would come to services from work, so when we went home afterward I’d have to choose who to go home with. I don’t know if...
I know snow as soap opera, the comedyof white heap shovelled into stropheand anti-strophe for long blocks – snowas envy, a shaken blanket making a lasting...
Several times a day Granny Lin bathes Old Tang: in the morning and before bedtime, and whenever he wets or dirties himself. The private bathroom is what Granny Lin likes best...
Alone in a London museum, I saw a watercolor of twin
flames, one black, one a gauzy red,...
…after dozens of visits, I stopped buying the paintings. Scenes of bright peasant life, or lovely little children in uniforms filing into school, pictures of grand bourgeois...
LORENZO: Let me tell you a story, Tilly. A patient of mine – he thought if he urinated, he would flood his entire village. So he could not urinate! And this was very painful to...
