Tuesday, January 21 2025

Rachel Kadinsky

Soft fingers on rolled paper, red lips waiting. I flip the lid of my old brass Zippo from ’86, the hinge sticking in the same old place, and I grind the wheel. A sooty flame whooshes up and bursts into life, a clichéd dance of orange and blue, the sting of the kerosene hitting the

Defiance

f/10, ISO-400, -0.3 step, 50mm, 1/800 sec.

Your Last Orbit

Hold on a minute, did you just die, I can’t hear you anymore. Frantic, out of control, you buzzed your last while trying to escape the blinding light that tempts you to your doom. I listened to you while I wrote, how you battled on relentlessly, stopping only once to sit on a piece of

Early Morning

f/2.5, ISO-125, -2 step, 6mm, 1/15 sec.