Isabella G. Mead



On an Antique Breast Pump

after ‘Breast Pump, London, England, 1870-1901’, Wellcome Collection The pump, nestled in a cloth-lined locked box, is made of two parts: apple-shaped glass bulb, brass syphon embossed with the names of its makers, son & son. The key to the …

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Reflections on a Waiting Room Lithograph

after Käthe Kollwitz’s ‘Mothers holding their sick children waiting to consult a physician’ (1920), lithograph I. No one knows exactly how paracetamol works: its mechanism for reducing the body’s temperature a black box according to a lengthy article on the …

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I Cutlass Spent Days With an X

Question: What does every ancient reef forget? Answer: That time stopped for it several thousand years ago. The line resembles a stain on the sundial’s brow. Imprecise, fading outward, crowned by the earth’s long furlough from dust and heat. A …

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The Salience Network [Street Scenes, Heidelberg]

We are walking daily now. We are stepping out at the inter- section of Cape & Brown where a bristling fir tree is scrubbing tense from the sky. Presently I’ve never seen so many walkers, so many dogs on leashes …

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