Welcome to GR Online, a series of short-form articles that take aim at the moving target of contemporary culture as it’s whisked along the guide rails of innovations in digital media, globalisation and late-stage capitalism.
Finding you above Kyoto
Finding you above Kyoto stone cats in red knits lined a narrow canal sweetened water swirled in bowls of fallen leaves staining my hands...
The gift
My younger sister’s just now sent me a maxim that our mother used, mostly in regard to others; then, each day as...
Quince season
our kitchen turns rosaries of light in ginger and lemon outside the fib of things fading down our evergreen seasons ...
Talon
(I thought it lost like a gate left open or a one-winged parenthesis, the hooked talon my father brought back from India in 1932,...
Weekend in the capital
I’m 65 per cent more likely to be myself here in the capital of same-sex coupledom it’s true I like to...
Conversations with the navigator
Walking alone, Roaring Forties buffeting our island, my haphazard heart cast away, I see Matthew’s sloop split the strait....
Eating fire
it’s quite okay to eat fire there are rules a trick to it so long as you don’t inhale or...
Definition: wog (n); a thing
A wog is a word for a thing a polliwog, a golliwog a black-face doll – a sailor who has not crossed the...
Creatures
Translated from the original Italian by Julia Anastasia Pelosi-Thorpe I Nothing flimsier, nothing easier: time is lost if I believe we’ll have...
Aplonis fusca
sing me champagne from the windows sing me a child out of doors sing me pollen on kitchen chairs and straws that...
Unicornered
Our dinosaur balloon has lost its pep. For weeks it commandeered the living room. It swayed above its empire like an...
Mother-daughter trip
Nana B and Zeide once ice-skated on a lake in the Carpathian Mountains in Poland. ‘I was made for Poland,’ says...
