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April 24, 2024

ouimet


this canyon is so deep that arctic lichens are said to grow on its floor, brought there by some glacier that dragged herself over the land once. i have a watercolour of it in my kitchen; it looks perfectly harmless, peaceable. i like to look at it when i stir a pot and think about the violence — what remains after the unbearable violence of slow time.

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