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The old man, the mayor, was trying to say that the world was knit together with threads we could not see, that the wind was a bridge between people.
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|n|otabilia 474 ⁂ Michael Martone ⁂ "The Mayor of the Sister City Speaks to the Chamber of Commerce in Klamath Falls, Oregon, on a Night in December in 1976" || read it in #Notabilia, a daily(ish) newsletter: http://ktxc.to/nbts #flashfiction #tinyfiction #prosepoem

…They stand still
in the glassy nightmare
while the cricket scratches softly
at the invisible…

#notabilia 473 ⁂ Nelly Sachs ⁂ "In the blue distance" ⁂ http://ktxc.to/nbts ⁂ #poetry #commonplace

…How endless an hour seems compared to a proportionless forever…

#notabilia 472 ⁂ Eric Pankey ⁂ "The Book of an Hour" ⁂ http://ktxc.to/nbts ⁂ #poetry #commonplace

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance. ← James Baldwin → #TinyWisdom #Notabilia