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2022
Michael Kleber-Diggs

- for Alex, Dafne, Dave, Gregory, Ignacio, Jai, Josephine, Kate, Liz, Noelle, Norah, and Thea Tofte Lake Center, National Emerging Artists Retreat, July 2021

gravel paths hard drought earth

rocks small (& smaller) i

assume i make the sound my

steps send rocks

skipping along other rocks

how else electric music like this

or who else such music makes no

passersby but – youknowwhat? – the song seemed

perfect pattern & pitch (too perfect &) i

eventually [y] remember [e] we [l] are [l] never [o] alone [w] then (i)

realize who was there with me had been