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tiny ritual & poetry review, on each full moon

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emily brandt
Apr 06, 2023
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welcome. hello.

I’m so glad you’re here. We made it to April! I kept using the word “carbonated” to describe March - a sense of something perpetually, unstoppably bubbling up. In March, I started this newsletter, cold-plunged, attended compline and vespers (despite not being a church-goer), read a lot of tarot, broke up a fist fight, watched a violence-…

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