Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
AZAREEN VAN DER VLIET OLOOMI is the author of Fra Keeler (Dorothy, a publishing project). She teaches in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame, and is the recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award.
Tunnel
By Azareen Van der Vliet OloomiThe war is ongoing. It is unclear what set if off. Very few people want to admit this. They talk as if they know. At dinner I suggest to them, to my people, the people I love and know, that certain things, especially those that are hugely consequential, cannot be grasped in the present; any attempt to do so, I say, will inevitably result in reductive justifications, linear arguments of the cause-and-effect kind.
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