The Geecologist

Ways of Seeing

Ways of Seeing

Nov 26, 2022 | Essays, Images, Non-Fiction | 0 comments

Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never...
Invisible Man

Invisible Man

Feb 6, 2021 | Fiction | 0 comments

“Come in,” I said. The door opened slowly. A group of youth members crowded forward, their faces a question. The girls were crying. “Is it true?” they said. “That he is dead? Yes,” I said, looking among them. “Yes.”...
On Love

On Love

Nov 30, 2019 | Fiction | 0 comments

The telephone becomes an instrument of torture int he demonic hands of a beloved who doesn’t ring. When Chloe called a few days later, I had rehearsed my speech too often to deliver it correctly. I was caught unprepared, handing socks on a rail. I ran to the...