To leave Earth and all known things behind — I was never huge on certainty but I am afraid of death and all irrevocable changes. Out there where there is no noise of human civilization, where the honking of horns and the slapping of cash registers at the convenience store on a Monday morning justContinue reading “Journal: 2/18/2015”
Author Archives: Mabel Lee
Christmasland: Copenhagen and Stockholm
My first imaginary encounter with Copenhagen was in the book Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, a young-adult novel we read in the 5th grade which is set in Denmark during the Nazi occupation. The main character, Annemarie, who is a young Danish girl, helps her Jewish friend and her family to hide and escape to Sweden. I remember a scene inContinue reading “Christmasland: Copenhagen and Stockholm”
Evening
Through the rearview mirror the sun burst, red like a siren, between the trees gathered any remembered shade of crimson lowering itself out from under the cloud mantle of snow the chariot-pulling horses offer the sun to the evening fish, who buries it in the sea on its night journey in the silence between twoContinue reading “Evening”
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