Status Updates From Villa Incognito

“Yellow as summer sunlight, soft as young thighs, smooth as a Baptist preacher’s rant, falsely innocent as a magician’s handkerchief, mayonnaise will cloak a lettuce leaf, some shreds of cabbage, a few hunks of cold potato in the simplest splendor, restyling their dull character, making them lively and attractive again, granting them the capacity to delight the gullet if not the heart.”

A 5-hour bus ride is as good a time as any to continue

“Spring has a way of erasing doubts. Violets, come April, no longer worry that their careers may be over.”