Cover Photo: This photograph is a close up image of a shiny, orange clam, it's hinges open to the delicate sunshine that reflects off its shell and the wet sand beneath it.
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Laying Down the Groundwork

When I got up before anyone else / I took the heavy clams from the fridge / and put them in a bowl of cool water.

Laying Down the Groundwork

I took the heavy clams from the fridge and put them in a bowl of cool water.

in their natural environment

my take on cruelty and death and the general business of meaning-making.

he found them impossibly closed guarding tight against the tap water which would explode their salt-water cells

thatSo much for that, then?
so much?

naturallycrueltyutilityBut back to our scheduled program:

too much?too much.

considering the current unfolding data, doubt is not the absence of faith
as they say in some other, higher context

Anything with a hinge might as well be open.
That one I heard from an ex-burglar on reality TV.

Hedgie Choi is an MFA candidate at Johns Hopkins University. She received her MFA in poetry from the Michener Center for Writers.