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[JULY 2023.]

July 28, 2023

I dreamt I was dating Samuel R. Delany. We went hiking through a ruined city, because of course that’s what you do on a date with him, and I asked him what he’d like to be called.

“As you know,” he said, “most of my intimates in any context call me ‘Chip.’ However, in consideration of our unique relation, I would like you to call me ‘Boo.’”

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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.