FEATHERS LEFT FLOATING

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Douglas Blake Olds

Summer 2025-past season of Epiphany 2026



[follows my 2025 anthology, The Inexhaustible Always in the Exhausted Speaks: A Sensorium of Brokenness and Delight.]


https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRZ5W1dh4q469VfRyrewfi_C_9-mD_MFMWYNI3dNLcei-KO5EB1affxGGgBgfCP0KHN_p135b2_qylx/pub



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