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A Fallen City.

"Perchance, when, in the course of ages, American liberty has become a fiction of the past--as it is to some extent a fiction of the present--the poets of the world will be inspired by American mythology."

—Thoreau, cited in 𝑆𝑦𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑢𝑚 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒

The mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups.

poppyhorse, grayfaced harpist
inhale concrete dust, tailspin
worthy, teeth-turnlane
tulipmaniac trainwreck

poppyhorse, punk rehearsal
in pale cerulean hailstones

Transit of Wonder.