I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness

by Claire Vaye Watkins

My problem is I have too much space and spend a great deal of my time curating warm, inviting work tableaus that I do not then use.

You were here, then you were gone. I love you. Am practicing saying that.

I regretted not loving Theo better, said so in the canyon. I apologized to him and to Ruth for the ways I had “prepared” for her, that is, by buying shit.