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May 8, 2019October 22, 2025 - Archives, Poetry, Reading, Writing

Five Poems, by Erika Bojnowski

filament Let it all fade in: glass shard glitter, far-flung nebulae— nerves twisting themselves into a phone cord. dark blooms,…

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May 8, 2019 - Birthday, Books, Quotes, Reading, Writing

“Why should things be easy to understand?”

Happy birthday, Thomas Pynchon! 82, today! Here is Against the Day‘s Jesse’s school essay on “What It Means to Be…

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