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Cristina Rivera Garza, Suzanne Levine (trans), Aviva Kana (trans). The Taiga Syndrome. (El mal de la taiga, 2012). Thinner than The Iliac Crest, and possibly backfired in making me hungry for factuality; there is, after all, a knowable taiga.

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.