Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure No angels told my mother I was coming. I weighed heavy on her mind nine months as she worked with the other Jamaican women at Batchelor Peas in Huntingdon, on the canning factory floor until the day before I was born....
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure Weary from a whole DJ set, i welcome one more song. i mean, how can i blame this body for blooming. i mean, it’s tradition, really. i mean, how can i explain this unconditional lover the metronome taps its version of...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure for Camilla Donghi While others try to keep alive their livers & their tongues, we happily instead let sweets & alcohol rot ours; while others try to keep unsoiled their fingers & their lungs, we...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure We leave for the cemetery before the sun is up, packing Fuji apples and a passion fruit crepe cake from Lady M’s. We had skipped visiting my dad’s grave last autumn for Chong Yang Festival due to my son’s Science...
Issue 24 / Winter 2021 / Special Issue: Pleasure I pull my fingers out of you slowly. Our heavy breathing is somehow synchronized, low and animalistic. While you gather yourself, I stand, unhook the strap on, and go to the sink to rinse my hands of the beautiful mess...
