“The Boy from Thuringia” is part of a series of stories collectively called The History of Adoption. In it, a middle-aged man sets out rather obsessively to write a comprehensive history of the adopted child. In his attempts to finally begin this im

If I knew beauty, I could/ wake her where she dreams,/ persuade her to inform each/ gestured choice I make.

To listen is to feel embodied reason// sing and dance with consummate grace