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"Pestilence" Four Years Later

"Pestilence" Four Years Later

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Dear Friends,

Four years ago, I began writing the longest poem in Wound. I was sitting in the grass in Central Park, where I worked each day that uncertain spring, when I mustered the courage to start looking at the notes I’d been taking on my phone for weeks.

March and April were nightmarish. This sentiments rings true for everyone in different ways. As…

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