“The tempest unleashes an alphabet
letters fall through the apertures of crazy angles
to spell out the future
uprooting the course of invention
and enslaving the masters”

—  Nancy Peters

It's In the Wind (1977) "Ceremonies In A Polar Garden"
1970s

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American writer and publisher 1936

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