Claire Oleson

Apr 26, 2024 | joylandmagazine.com | Claire Oleson |Michelle Lyn King

A leucistic moose, a pearled animal with starch-white fur and black eyes, dies to a kia soul going 79 on an upstate rural road. The kia soul dies too—one of the world’s biggest vegetarians shoved through its windshield like a headstone. I buy us brie and a bottle of skin-contact white wine on the way home. The moose is something I see in the paper. I learn about the difference between leucism and albinism on a walk from the trader joe’s to the bus. I learn of partial and complete incapacities.