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Alfredo Aguilar, from “Mount Erie,” featured in THE COLLAPSAR

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i wanted to find
the animal in my body & skin it. to find
the river in my body & lie in it. to let
the water render me like every other silent
glowing stone in the sky.
— Alfredo Aguilar, from “Mount Erie,” published in The Collapsar
there has never been any other world. even in the wonder of entering a new landscape i could never stop carrying myself.
Alfredo Aguilar, “Mount Erie,” published in The Collapsar
When referring to a suicide, we say she took her own life because we recognize a life isn’t ours, not really, it’s a thing borrowed or worn for a short while like a coat in winter, but it was August when she stole her life in her own two hands, the sky sweat on everything, or wept, all metaphor— however you choose to say it, she was tired, she entered the summer night as if entering a room or a bath or a long silence, she decided it was hers, and once she had it in her grasp, she knew nothing could ever make her give it back.
Semantics by Leila Chatti
There are some stories that get stuck in your head for years and years, fighting to come up the surface of reality, to reality. Being a surface, however, reality is distortive. Reality is the flat map of the Earth; some things stretched and some made smaller. I never knew how to write this story.

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My father, mishearing gold
as god, says it’s not true, there is a god here to be had. So much
god we could buy out a country. So much god
to build a kingdom for & still be kept out.
— Kristin Chang, from “Western Movie,” published in The Collapsar
I’m trying to get it all Out and it burns like
Fucking hell, and I’m So pissed off and all
There is to me is what Silence I can’t conquer
— Camonghne Felix, from “Grocery,” published in The Collapsar
When I first heard U.S. Girls’ debut album, Introducing…, I thought it sounded like music itself had been turned inside out. It seemed to be coming from a place so isolated that hearing it ma…
This essay I wrote about U.S. Girls, Bruce Springsteen, and a few things they conjure is up at The Collapsar today!