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“I want
to tell my son it’s not
shameful to need

something or someone
to help us out of the darkness
when it gets very dark.”
Erika Meitner
“I ate eggs from a chafing dish while the baker
reminded us: the only thing that will hurt you
out here are your own bad decisions

Erika Meitner
“7. The first time I arrived here, I never thought I am small
and luminous


8. The body, burdened and miraculous

9. The body as thin-nest boundary”
Erika Meitner
“15. The inevitability of a scarred life, your pulse, stitches,
this palace of breath

16. go on, go on / again, again / return, return”
Erika Meitner
“I would like to tell you about the tactile universe.
What we are sure of is minimal: the mystery

of the unseen inside of things–the gliding,
flexing, bone-breaking grooves of peripatetic

movement or a longing for stronger feelings.

— Erika Meitner, from “Letter on Space & the Body,” Oxford American (Fall 2022)”
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