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"if purpose is a moment

and not a monument then all
there is to do is keep writing
things down."
– LOW-LEVEL ANNIHILATION, Savannah Brown

"and i'm thinking, somehow, that this splinter
of time maims deeper than eternity, and i'm too scared

to tell you i don't know what to call this thing reproducing
between us, like the deer who doesn't know that name
of the roaring and luminous beast flying through the black,
only that it's getting closer and closer and closer."
from IMPACT by Savannah Brown

"this may be the secret of loss,

that despite my own continued presence in
the world, i suspect that the slash

of a tether, more often than it frees, banishes."

"you're trying to write everything down. lay it out. endless three-card solitaire, the canyon-gorged vinyls, every cursed word you've let inside you which began safe then grew, you've written them all, stony in the face of obsession and rage, cuffed to the pursuit, lately, of hobbies which promise to break skin, or slice the pockmarks from the solitude"