( via/ me )

"...this particular pathology, reality experienced only through the mediating filter of prior representations, has reached a pitch in America that is no longer low stakes."

"The river frightened me, as though it had deliberately followed me here."

Unquiet, E. Saxey via @minxmarple.bsky.social

No Moon Floods the Memory of that Night.

"Winter

Three winter brightnesses—
Bridesheet, boy in snow,
Kirkyard spade."

—George Mackay Brown via

How I wrote "Turn of the Tide".