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"My focus was shifting."

"Elfwisk – a Hookland dialect word for fate. While it can be translated as god-wished, it's more often used to imply that ill or fortunate happenstances in a person’s life are being manipulated by unseen forces of a somewhat lower order, often for no reason other than their fierce merriment." —@hookland.bsky.social

"This biographical attention to a work deriving from recycled materials and written for the public stage would seem inherently implausible, were it not for the overwhelming impression on readers and spectators alike that the play must have emerged in an unusually direct way from the playwright’s inner life, indeed that at moments the playwright was barely in control of his materials.."

white enamel iron chairs
in the cold early light
pennies, paperbacks

elfwisk

"Unless I am much mistaken, this is not the sort of reception generally accorded to poets in America today."