Judah’s Reviews > Fugitive Pieces > Status Update

“In experiments to determine the mechanisms of migration, scientists locked warblers in cages and kept them in darkened rooms where they couldn’t see the sky. The birds lived in bewildered twilight. Yet each October, they huddled, agitated, turned inside out with yearning… When you are lost to ones you love, you will face south-southwest like the caged bird.”

i’m gonna kill everyone here and then myself

“Each island represented a victory and a defeat: it had either pulled itself free or pulled too hard and found itself alone.”