“Joy can come alive like that, when random pieces of history and rhythm, pause and expectation, melody and lyric, suddenly rearrange themselves into a pattern that leaps up, back against the wall, and catches your heart.”

— Andrea Lewis (writer)

"Forty Years" Slow Trains Vol.7, Issue 3 (2008)
2000-09

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