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High Flight
Content warning: this text contains descriptions of dying. That’s gonna be boring, my dad says. Can we add this to it? I look at the salami stick my dad…
Dominique Zipper
Jan 17, 2021
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Siamese Coils
I’ve recently gotten myself into the voluntary loop of listening to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, recomposed by Max Richter. I do this thing with a good…
Dominique Zipper
Nov 17, 2020
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Jelly Guts
When the pandemic first started, and we were asked to stay home, some people ran into the ring of the suffering Olympics and held up their tiny internet…
Dominique Zipper
Apr 30, 2021
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Bitter Hay
I disappeared for a bit. A few things happened that left me shrinking. Shrinking from others is one thing, but shrinking from your own mind is a…
Dominique Zipper
Oct 21, 2021
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Pregnant Now
I’m pregnant now. I told a lot of friends early on. I never considered keeping it a secret. I adopted the refrain “Well if I miscarry I’ll just end up…
Dominique Zipper
Jan 21, 2022
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Swimming For Your Life
There are times when terrible, cataclysmic things happen, and you grip the walls, demanding an answer on how the walls could look on and not intervene…
Dominique Zipper
Jul 31, 2021
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Gisela
I wrote this piece in October 2019: before the pandemic, before my mother died, and one year after my grandmother’s death. I wrote it from a place of…
Dominique Zipper
Mar 10, 2021
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Could it happen here?
My brother got a Dampfmaschine (German for a steam engine) as a gift when he was a kid. The point of it, I guess, was to see the inner workings of an…
Dominique Zipper
Sep 28, 2020
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Welcome: to your body
Hi! Welcome to pergola. I mentioned in my intro that I feel like I've lost the plot on what we're all doing. And leaving the apocalyptic elements of…
Dominique Zipper
Sep 11, 2020
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Calcium
You are lost. The days churn my ankles, milking me out, from underneath my table of disbelief. I press into its legs, fracturing them at their joints…
Dominique Zipper
Apr 10, 2021
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Spring Grief
Oh it’s HEAVEN out right now! Is it raining there? It’s nice here. We are a seven minute drive apart, but the mountains make many mini-weathers in North…
Dominique Zipper
Feb 23, 2021
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Rat Track
I hate that sound, I said. About the train horn in the distance, at night. We used to hear that sound in Edmonton, my dad said. Lying in bed. At ten…
Dominique Zipper
May 23, 2021
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