There's some evidence that before events of mass trauma, even unpredictable ones, people begin to feel higher anxiety, often expressed in terms specific to the event.

The real past can traumatize us, but so can the real future.

Paranoia can be a sign of a sanity in some circumstances, in some places and times.

It's fiction's job to express how it feels to be living now, and it's a complex feeling, full of contradiction. To me it often feels like a brutal trivialization of reality.

Many of the concepts we once thought belonged to speculation or science fiction are now part of our understood reality.

The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry.

Toronto is hard to capture in a few strokes.