The concept of "reunion" can generate a very specific type of anxiety. For me, it has always been an underlying sense of wanting to be there and wanting to be invisible at the same time. That paradox has inspired essays, some short fiction, and this poem.
"Disappear Here" (1989)
122: 'Past Tenths' of 'Disappear Here'
228: Some Assembly Required, chapter 6
227: Some Assembly Required, chapter 5
TalkBack 172: Proud To Know You 2
TalkBack: Walk The Earth 30
TalkBack 113: Raised On Robbery
TalkBack 173: Seeing Spot Run
226: Some Assembly Required, chapter 4
Talkback: Walk The Earth 2
225: Some Assembly Required, chapter 3
TalkBack: Walk The Earth 1
224: Some Assembly Required, chapters 1 & 2
Walk The Earth 58
TalkBack 138: Missing Someone I Never Knew
223: Torment As Tactic
TalkBack 40: Other High Crimes
TalkBack 15: Declaring War on 'Just Say No'
222: Displeasure
TalkBack 14: Sex Education the Protestant Way; Then, Not Now
Walk The Earth 57
TalkBack 30: Establishment of Religion
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