“The Time Kettle—few have seen it.” It is a tiny speck of a vessel, and yet it carries the flame for the entire universe. It is grand,...

Why does everything happen so much all the time? Do plants have desire? Yes. For sun, for water. For questions.

I’ve spent the last few months, bloody knuckled, in the dirt, excavating ceramic vases that are thousands of years old. Metaphorically.