You know what people don’t tell you about? The intimacy of tragedy. The collapse into the lap of your lover; not in elated exertion…. but in grief. The speechlessness; not of direct eye contact……
christina rivera // essayist & author // MY OCEANS: Essays of Water, Whales, & Women forthcoming from Curbstone Books & Northwestern University Press Sp'25
You know what people don’t tell you about? The intimacy of tragedy. The collapse into the lap of your lover; not in elated exertion…. but in grief. The speechlessness; not of direct eye contact……