Photo by Raechel Running
A short essay on a long topic, from the January 2012 Orion: “Take it as a deposit in the bank of long returns, or as an exchange in a drawn-out conversation we hold with the children of people who have not yet been born: my five-year-old son, sedulously plunging his hands into a big bowlful of what we call blue corn kernels (even though they aren’t quite blue) that my wife and I have laboriously been removing from their cobs, incautiously spills a passel of seeds into the crack at the back of the new easy chair, and when I try to remove them they slip down into the slick imitation-leather crevice and are lost forever, for it’s a cut-rate chair from China that we bought on deep discount from World Market, and the cushion can’t be removed . . . “
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