“It was as though the lifeline on her palm
had fallen between the cracks
of the impossible and the arbitrary.”

— Sheri-D Wilson

"In Search of a Metaphysical Rock Star"
Goddess Gone Fishing for a Map of the Universe (2012)

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Canadian Spoken Word Poet 1958

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