Long ago, I find the housewith one blazing window and sneak upto peek in: there are my parents in each other’s armsnaked in the rumpled bed, mouths locked, eyesradiant like the glass. I put my ear to the sashto listen but the pane thrums and the cat Jupitercomes padding: Am I a sparrow? A grasshopper?I […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/05/25/the-extinct-d-nurkse/