(April, 2026, from The Preserve) What is compelling to me is the lack of something. The abandonment, the purge, the deletion. The burning and the freeing. To watch a need, and by that actually …

(screenshot of a spread from Ravens, 1979) About 45 years ago, Masahisa Fukase made a book of pictures called Ravens as a way to, in part, process his divorce from his wife. The book …

My recent Letters entry was re-published in FlakPhoto. Thanks to Andy Adams for reading the initial letter and finding it worth a larger audience.

Dad tending to a backyard fire. Naperville, Ill. 2009 It All Turns on Affection is the title of Wendell Berry's 2012 Jefferson Lecture for the Humanities. It's an essay that's lingered in the back …