Patrick Nathan

In April, my city was occupied—again. It’s a bodily thing: you see soldiers with the same weapons used in mass shootings cradled in their arms, you see their armored transports camouflaged for occupied deserts, and you are overcome. To walk to the grocery store means ...

Radiation, film, trauma, the elements: to expose is a one-way verb. The nuclear reactor knows nothing of the bodies it degrades. Light is invulnerable to the celluloid it stains. The man who exposes himself does so without empathy. There’s no unseeing a man’s penis, and even ...