Killers by Design

by Jim Tilley Creeping is an act of stealth, moving slowly and carefully to avoid being heard or noticed, a label improperly assigned to the invasive plants rapidly climbing trunks of trees to erect themselves, smothering those trees’ leaves, blocking sunlight, suppressing photosynthesis, killers by design, somewhat like their cousins growing uncontrollably, spreading to other

THE GRAPH OF YOU

by Jim Tilley I’ve been thinking of you, and I’ve been thinking about graphs, those mathematical objects composed of lines joining one point to the next. You’ve been showing me points in your life connected to other points, happenings that, taken together, define who you are, as if you could possibly be defined at all—