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Michael Abraham

Michael Abraham-Fiallos is a writer of critical and lyrical prose as well as poetry. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Yale English Department. His critical writing is forthcoming from Modernism/modernity. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Palimpsest, storm of blue, The Minetta Review, and Poets Reading the News, among others. Michael's writing revolves around issues of queerness and queer love, mental illness, whiteness and its reactionary politics, the occult, and the occasional philosophical problem. He lives in New York City. Email: michael.abraham [at] yale.edu

What to Do with Pain

Posted on Monday, May 2, 2022 1:45AMMonday, May 2, 2022 by Michael Abraham

by Michael Abraham Take a star of anise and a pinch of lavender in either hand. Hold these to the chest and whisper out a little prayer. Splash clean water on the face. Brush the teeth. Fret over little details in the bedroom, whether the paintings are hung straight, whether the posters are in the…

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All the Glamour in Bein’ Sad

Posted on Monday, Apr 4, 2022 1:25AMMonday, April 4, 2022 by Michael Abraham

by Michael Abraham I am leaving, and I am taking nothing. I am leaving, and I am taking nothing, and there is a void inside me—a round, black sphere, like a planet, or like the absence of a planet where a planet should be. I am coming apart in the stress of it. I am…

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Giving Life: A Thank You Note to Jinkx Monsoon

Posted on Monday, Mar 7, 2022 2:05AMMonday, March 7, 2022 by Michael Abraham

by Michael Abraham-Fiallos I was sixteen years old the first time I went to a drag show. It was an all-ages show in the Capitol Hill neighborhood—the gayborhood—of Seattle. My two best friends, Nalani and Shreya, bought tickets for my birthday. The performer was Jinkx Monsoon, who would go on to fame as the winner…

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The Tarot: Narrative, Therapy, Self-Making

Posted on Monday, Feb 7, 2022 1:20AMMonday, February 7, 2022 by Michael Abraham

by Michael Abraham-Fiallos  When I am not doing well in my own head, I turn to the tarot. While no substitute for therapy or psychiatry, the tarot has an ancient function that is symbiotic with these modern methods for coping with the wild unruliness of the mind. I know it sounds silly. But before there…

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Adjacency

Posted on Monday, Jan 10, 2022 2:05AMMonday, January 10, 2022 by Michael Abraham

by Michael Abraham-Fiallos I knock at the bathroom door.  “You alright, hun?” No pause. “Yeah, I’m fine! Just bad today.” I try to keep any sign of pity out of my voice—nobody likes to be treated like a patient—“I’m sorry. Can I get you anything?” No pause. “No, I’m fine! Love you.” “Love you, too.”…

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Keeping House

Posted on Monday, Dec 6, 2021 1:50AMMonday, December 6, 2021 by Michael Abraham

by Michael Abraham-Fiallos I am a messy person.  I am a messy person, and I don’t like to clean. My house testifies to this: cups in the sink, mail on the counter, books spilling off the windowsills, too much laundry in the bin, a scattering of incense dust on the coffee table alongside burnt out…

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A New York Love Letter

Posted on Monday, Nov 8, 2021 2:10AMMonday, November 8, 2021 by Michael Abraham

by Michael Abraham-Fiallos [This essay closes a loose trilogy of essays, which I did not quite comprehend as a trilogy until I finished it. The first can be read here, and the second can be read here. In closing the trilogy, which is focused on love and the queer, this essay acts a kind of…

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On No Longer Liking Allen Ginsberg

Posted on Monday, Oct 11, 2021 2:10AMMonday, October 11, 2021 by Michael Abraham

by Michael Abraham-Fiallos I am sitting at a coffee shop downtown. It’s a nice Friday morning, not too hot and not too cool, not quite autumn and not quite summer. I have eaten, so I am no longer dreaming. And, I am reading “Howl” by Allen Ginsberg for the first time in at least half…

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Simone Weil on the Beach

Posted on Monday, Sep 13, 2021 2:25AMMonday, September 13, 2021 by Michael Abraham

by Michael Abraham-Fiallos “The Iliad, or The Poem of Force” is a now-canonical lyrical-critical essay by the French anarchist and Christian mystic, Simone Weil. In it, Weil critiques the Iliad to arrive at an understanding of what she calls force, something just beyond human action, alive in and ruling over the interactions of persons. “In…

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Fletching

Posted on Monday, Aug 16, 2021 1:55AMMonday, August 16, 2021 by Michael Abraham

by Michael Abraham-Fiallos I sit across from my husband at a Chinese restaurant downtown. We sit outside, in one of those wooden outhouses that Covid has made into a mainstay of New York dining. It is his lunch break, and I have come downtown to meet him, to talk things out. Frankness and care sit…

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Ennui at the Public Pool

Posted on Monday, Jul 19, 2021 1:55AMTuesday, July 20, 2021 by Michael Abraham

by Michael Abraham-Fiallos The day is a collision. The day is a collision of the body with itself, of the body with the space in which it finds itself, of the body against the sunlight which only ever heralds bad news in a mind like mine. Restlessness seizes all four limbs (an inconsistent phenomenon, brought…

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