Don't This Look Like The Dark

Cover image from Raffaele Mainella’s Illustrations for Nos Invisibles (1907). Public Domain

Don’t this look like the dark?

I chop the onions and saute them in butter and oil and as they sizzle and effervesce I do not cry. I am cold. I am practiced in shutting my eyes when I feel pain so I stir the burning remains and listen to another news story about children starving, genocide, protests in the street, bombings, casual fascism so common it’s overwhelming but - I. Do not. Cry.

I look out into the s...