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the lake has risen up against us

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Toronto, 2017.05.25

The boy was heroically standing at the brink as the waves came crashing in. But he flinched just as I took this pic.

two for flinching

two for flinching

It really has been a hell of a Spring. The city's had trucks out, pumping water out of the storm drains and into special holding tanks that lie underneath the broad stretch of grass behind the beach.

rand()m quote

I had always imagined paradise as a kind of library.

—Jorge Luis Borges