Writing the light: “One Hundred Reasons Not to Die” by Nickole Brown

NUMBER ONE: Because oranges. Because a single slice held to the light is magic and sometimes the scene in the window of its cathedral is a fallow field on fire with dawn and sometimes it’s not pulp you see but a case of mantis eggs, a twitch of strange water held by skin made of soil and sunlight.

whole piece online: “One Hundred Reasons Not to Die”