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Lorinne Niedecker with some friends at Pleasant Lake

Lorinne Niedecker with some friends at Pleasant Lake


from “Advice to Myself”
Don’t keep all the pieces of the puzzlesor the doll’s tiny shoes in pairs, don’t worrywho uses whose toothbrush or if anythingmatches, at all.Except one word to another. Or a thought.
—Louise Erdrich

(Happy b-day, L.E.)

from “Advice to Myself”

Don’t keep all the pieces of the puzzles
or the doll’s tiny shoes in pairs, don’t worry
who uses whose toothbrush or if anything
matches, at all.
Except one word to another. Or a thought.

—Louise Erdrich

(Happy b-day, L.E.)

“Not That Lake,” by Dara Wier.

(Source: thecontinentalreview.com)