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120 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2017


but life is cruel, so cruel, she said over and over, it's hard but unsteady too, and senseless, ruled by a geometry we'll never understand but that we feel in our very flesh, and when you formulate a plan, when you commit to an idea, and you sketch and forge and sculpt, life will take care of distorting it all, as if demons were running the show, lovers of twists and turns and never straight lines, mercurial satyrs, not god, god forgive me, sometimes i think god lies in death and not life, because death is eternal rest, the perpetual light of righteousness. life, on the other hand, all that we call nature, that's the devil's work, the devil sides with beasts, with snakes and scorpions. the devil makes his nest in the eye of a bird, an egg's speckled shell, creatures' claws, a mess of feathers, river's whirl.