Keariene Muizz
To some extent it was as though we were all living in a time that had moved backwards. America withdrew, counter-clockwise into chaos, locked herself in retrograde for three uncompromising years under forty-five. And I suspect I selfishly compartmentalized the loss more than most. That is to say, I dug the black semicircle of dirt from the underside of my stubby nails into the efficiencies of the day and pretended that I was not drowning beneath the failures of the humanitari