are concretely rooted in reality, others play with surrealism, allegory, and the supernatural.

the horror of facing something that breaks the characters' established understanding of reality. Yet

in the riptide of the prevalent hipster culture and new reality of social media. He is thrown into

gradually turn into violence and paranoia. As the boys become adults and Moses descends further from reality

composed surface of the poem while acknowledging a reality outside of the poem's constructed lyric space

the edges of their own relationship with reality, in which their metaphors threaten to jump the

living reality of the sitter by representing subjects in a way they wanted to be seen or remembered. The

reality. The question that undergirds and guides my research is "Can the empathy that is generated by

tunnels of a simultaneous reality that is indigenous, post-colonial, and colonial best perhaps previewed

reality and perception, of loss and discovery and connection. The essays plug away at both remembering