I met a migrant from a distant land who sang: in a garden beyond lies the wreck of a birdbath, pieces strewn across the sand, its slimed bowl cracked, of water not a speck. Split
Month: December 2023
Synecdoche and December 15thSynecdoche and December 15th
“Synecdoche,” our teacher said, “is part for the whole or whole for the part,” a statement as incomprehensible to teenage ears as was the word itself. “England beat South Africa,” came his follow-up, “that’s whole