The Geecologist

Mornings In Jenin

Mornings In Jenin

Nov 11, 2023 | Fiction | 0 comments

Amal wanted a closer look into the soldier’s eyes, but the muzzle of his automatic rifle, pressed against her forehead, would not allow it. Still, she was close enough to see that he wore contacts. She imagined the soldier leaning into a mirror to insert the...
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos

And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos

Nov 4, 2023 | Fiction, Poetry

When I open my walletto show my paperspay moneyor check the time of a trainI look at your face.The flower’s pollenis older than the mountainsAravis is youngas mountains go.The flower’s ovuleswill be seeding stillwhen Aravis then agedis no more than a hill.The flower...
We Measure The Earth With Our Bodies

We Measure The Earth With Our Bodies

Jul 30, 2022 | Fiction

Ama was an oracle. The realization came to my mother late in life, when her monthly bleedings stopped and something else opened inside. Some in our village called it an affliction. They said there was a crack in her mind that left her open to spirits who would consume...
The Garden of Forking Paths

The Garden of Forking Paths

Apr 1, 2022 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

To Victoria Ocampo In his A History of the World War (page 212), Captain Liddell Hart reports that a planned offensive by thirteen British divisions, supported by fourteen hundred artillery pieces, against the German line at Serre-Montauban, scheduled for July 24,...
Eva Luna

Eva Luna

Feb 13, 2021 | Fiction | 0 comments

He knelt beside me. “What’s the matter?” “I’m afraid?” “Of what?” “Of the sounds, of this darkness, of evil spirits, of snakes and bugs, of the soldiers, of what we’re going to do Saturday-that we’ll all be killed …” “I’m afraid, too, but I wouldn’t miss this for...