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You must understand, long after the talking ends, some voices remain and ghost inside you in layers like the voices you remember bleeding into one another under the main conversation on ancient telephones. … More »
You must understand, long after the talking ends, some voices remain and ghost inside you in layers like the voices you remember bleeding into one another under the main conversation on ancient telephones. … More »
Over time it occurs to me I am building a shed that will burn. Footer and sill, whatever I do flames blue and translates to ash. The nail shrieks as it enters the joist and streams out, shrieks and drips a metal tear from the elemental eye. What I do not know is here. I worship wood and the instant. What is over, I can never finish. The angel of work is sweat. And still as I move the brush many faces look back at me. The stain vanishing into the…… More »
National Portrait Gallery
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The Civil War
President Obama reflects on what Lincoln means to him and to America, in an introduction to our special issue. Read more › |
