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On Continuation By Nico Amador “…vagueness makes the future conceivable.” –Etel Adnan
Egrets nuisance the hour, shaping themselves into question marks. They hover outside in the branches. You curl under the damp sheets like an egret, unresolved but familiar, the morning emptying dream after dream into your sleep. I prefer it this way, with the fog on the water, the residual of what’s yet to be delineated in the sober view. Last night we stood in the kitchen as the storm electrified the pitch dark every few seconds: the strip of beach, our two cars, bordering pines illuminated in stuttered exposures as if in error, as if the present couldn’t hold us in any kind of peace. I wanted then what I always want,
