#kvelling

Our brilliant former intern (and now news blogger & intrepid reporter) Camila Domonoske has a secret second life as a poetry expert, so naturally she decided to approach former FBI director James Comey’s recent tweets as a poetic Work:

The Work opens with a peaceful autumnal scene and two terse, declarative sentences:

“Beautiful fall day at West Point. Lone kayaker on the Hudson.”

The tweet establishes a pattern that will continue throughout the Work, of a specific location tied to every observation. In this case, as the first sentence notes, it’s a location inextricably tied with America’s history of war — but as the second sentence reminds us, on a body of water intimately tied to the ideal of the peaceful American pastoral.

Experience the Work here. (We’re SO proud, y’all. SO proud.)