Which Incendiary Oils: Emi, Jackie

March 27, 2020, Kate Belew With Emi, Jackie (New York City)

In an alternate life

my head is a lantern and it does not matter

which incendiary oils— napalm, thermite, doubt—

create the light, and they do 

stain petticoats, like the one I live in,

or did, when things were simple