Disease Is a Mirror poetically illustrates the dreamlike absurdities of a sudden illness and the tender nerves that it plucks.

Disease Is a Mirror (eBook)

Getting ready

"While listening to Robert Forster read Roadside Picnic ..."

Candy

Jewelry

"...afternoon detritus sparkling in the reflection of my slipping sunglasses."

Mowing the Lawn

Thoughts while watching Tierra Whack’s “Unemployed”

"...birds echo her love songs, tongued flowers beckon princes her way."

Thoughts while watching Donkey Skin

"Unwatched humans respawn and briefly run, sucked into my mass, while my offspring cart away the extracted meats and eggs for our home sack."

PLAYING A FREE PHONE GAME

"I like to think that the designers knew we’d prefer to sausage in, to rebelliously accentuate our tits and back rolls."

Easter dresses

"EXIT is a costume for Out, but it’s a reminder that we’re In."

Thoughts while waiting for the movie to start

"We place her on the lower set of stairs, so we remember to bring her up."

a romantic aesthetic

"Tomato-red long underwear pinned to an abandoned clothesline : terror :: perfumed satin nightgown adorned by an otherwise naked man : salvation."

Thoughts while watching The Quiet Earth

Designing the perfect pair of shoes

"The mom wants to remember to reposition the full-length mirror in the guest room, so she can rent it to ladies going shopping."

conceptualizing a scene in dark academia, an aesthetic I’m drawn to and repulsed by

"I feel a squareness waiting for the perfect red." 

"I feel a..."

"My ideal personal style belongs to Botticelli’s Portrait of a Young Man: wavy hair, wavy textures, a casually gestured ailment, Autumn, tomato."

In the Style of

"A swaying pine wreath. A sifting matcha powder. A sofa. Green is a stand-in for the color I can’t see. I think Pina Bausch saw it. This is a color that would present itself to ballerinas performing with their eyes closed."

The Effect of Arsenic on Chlorophyll: or, Thoughts After Purchasing a Second Sage Puffer Coat

"I once secretly wore my sister’s black heeled clogs and Rum Raisin lipstick to buy cigarettes at a vending machine in a local Applebee’s."

ADULTS WEAR HEELED CLOGS AND RUM RAISIN

"When I twist my back in a movement like a Claymation serpentine dancer, a feeling of
electricity radiates through my spine and arms. It is like a jarring shock wave from a live wire."

Disease Is a Mirror (excerpt)

"The Student complimented my engagement ring as 'unusual,' a garnet, and in a cold sweat, a limb recently descended from a forced shock, I answered 'thank you.'"

Emily Greenquist

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