"...Often the draft has its own energy and then we almost kill it. We refine something down to death."
INSIGHT
Lightflies
Dillard asks, which of you want to give your lives and be writers?
POETRY
Identities
It's usually right / to say You are lost, when you is so many of us,
MICRO
Parable
This is a survival chore.
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like how A vein of ore will fill a fissure. / like how two plates, pressing, will rise.