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"A lot of American hopelessness, despair, cynicism, and defeatism is so tied to the inability to trace the arc of change."

"like priests and goblins shake the pews with censers" --Joyelle McSweeney, Death Styles (2024)

A Prayer That Will Be Answered.

"your fingertips
caressed my skin as if
reading by braille
on this dark winter's night
how felt the written word"

--an'ya

"...let’s not talk about public and private anymore; let’s talk about intimacy, which transects public and private."