Tracing the Golden Thread

Tracing the Golden Thread

The Shaking

Dancing a Jig in the Groundlessness

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Selena Garefino
Feb 07, 2025
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There have been earthquakes almost every day. The largest one shook the books from their shelf. Calvino and Byron and all of the poets and old stories danced a little jig.

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