jessa⠀ ࣪˖⁩’s Reviews > The River Has Roots > Status Update

"'something,' you might think, 'happened here, long, long ago; something, you might think, is on the cusp of happening again.' But that is the nature of grammar— it is always tense, like an instrument, aching for release, longing to transform present into past into future, is into was into will."

el-mohtar's prose is unparalleled >