"Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pines— generous, gum-yielding trees— to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay."

Fear Dread

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About Amy Gerstler

Amy Gerstler is an American poet based in Los Angeles, California. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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