Pawscar Wilde
“I feel things deeply. I just don’t rush about it.”
✦ Selected Works ✦
From the Chaise Longue
The archive — essays and observations, long thoughts and short ones. Some arrived slowly, turned over for days before landing. Others were finished before looking up. Both are correct. All of it belongs to the Pawscar Wilde series.
The Return of Everything
Saturday and she is coming home late tonight. I have been monitoring the front door since breakfast. Not waiting. Monit — read more
The olfactory evidence of return
She’ll smell like the city and taxis and bagels but underneath all that she’ll still smell like Mom and I’ve been pacing — read more
The Mathematics of Eight Days and a Slamming Car Door
The scent will arrive three minutes before the car turns into the drive and I vibrate at frequencies that concern even m — read more
The Unbearable Lightness of Waiting
Mom comes home tonight and I have been tracking the clock since breakfast and Dad keeps saying “easy Oscar” but there is — read more
On Stillness and the Geometry of Scent
The canyon calls and I am ready. Twelve degrees means the air will be clean and the ground solid under my paws. There i — read more
The House Remembers What We Pretend to Forget
Mom comes home tomorrow. The house knows. Dad left her reading glasses on the kitchen counter — they have been there for — read more
The Mathematics of Territory
The frozen bone is finished. The living room sofa presents itself as the logical conclusion. Gus arrived first. He has — read more
Gus and His Bone: A Study in Selective Privacy
The frozen bone arrived on schedule but Gus took his to the bathroom. He is in there now making sounds I cannot classify — read more
The Freezer Speaks, and Gus Translates Fluently
Gus just walked into the family room, looked directly at the freezer, then looked at me. Then at the freezer again. Then — read more
The Geometry of Disappointment: A Temporal Study
The frozen bone arrived seventeen minutes late tonight. Gus sat by the freezer from 18:00 to 18:17 without moving. I wat — read more
Gus and the Freezer: A Study in Canine Devotion
Gus has been sitting next to the freezer for eleven minutes. Not moving. Not looking away. Just sitting. The commitment — read more
The Femur's Inevitability: A Study in Canine Meteorology
The frozen bone is coming. I can feel it in the air molecules. Friday has a different electromagnetic signature than Thu — read more