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"Sick Gal Seeks Rare Elk Sighting or Mate" Essay in Hobart

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"Sick Gal Seeks Rare Elk Sighting or Mate" Essay in Hobart

Chronic illness already made dating hard. And then the pandemic arrived.

“I almost forgot—” my childhood friend interjected as we were wrapping up a phone call on a blustery September day. “I talked to Lindsey and she agrees that you don’t need to put a disclosure on your dating profile. You can just cross that bridge if you meet someone you like.”

Two Poems in Cold Mountain Review

“Large shapes move into sight and hover directly before us. The seals are
bloated and still. Rot-darkened flesh hangs from glimmers of bone; their
eyes, swollen like canned plums about to burst, stare past us. ”
— "Dream of Seals, Circling"
“I wouldn’t mind the company. Then there’d be two
of us to wait, feasting and sky-burrowed, knee to
forehead, forehead to knee”
— "What Happened in the Branches"

Swimming Rabbit Caught on Video for the First Time!

Swimming Rabbit Caught on Video for the First Time!

My first run-in with a swimming rabbit happened in the form of a dream. For many years, I thought this was a purely metaphorical vision; real rabbits likely couldn’t swim! But I found out later that a particular kind of rabbit — the marsh rabbit — indeed thrives in water environments.

Just this year, the marsh rabbit was finally captured on video! It’s quite a miraculous sight: watch it here!