Select the tallest tree in the backyard and reach up with both hands grasp the lowest branch place your right foot against the trunk at waist-height support your weight with …
Transcarpathia (Nathanael O’Reilly)
I. We spent a summer late last century in the former USSR at the confluence of the Tiza and Rika rivers living in a Transcarpathian valley with the mafia the …
Border Crossings (Nathanael O’Reilly)
I. Vienna to Brno As we cross the Danube and leave Vienna the guy on my left reads every article in Le Monde about the Paris terror. The girl on my …
Greek Summer (Nathanael O’Reilly)
For Tricia On the road from Patras to Corinth, I piss in petrol station toilets paved with marble, eat lamb, potatoes, tomatoes and feta, break bread worthy of dreams. In …
Jimmy Watson’s (Nathanael O’Reilly)
Last time I saw you during the autumn of ninety-two we got drunk at Jimmy Watson’s celebrating your girlfriend’s twentieth You wore your t-shirt inside out making some kind of …