Emma Edits

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/20/tabula-rasa-volume-four

Tabula Rasa: Volume Four A project meant not to end.

Every Poem Was a Secret
by Edward Hirsch
Every poem was a secret
struggle with himself,
every secret was a struggle,
a handwritten scrawl,
something joyous
or terrible,
a fragmentary
blood-soaked message
wrenched out of his body,
a longing for
some impossible harmony
tucked into a bottle
and tossed off the side of a cliff.
Reckless love poems, shocked elegies
drafted against death
looking for God—
some of them shattered
in desperation
on the rocks below,
but others, like this one,
bobbed away
on surging blue waves
for someone to find them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/style/em-dash-punctuation.html

The Em Dash Divides Why do people care so much about a piece of — no offense — punctuation?

that's kinda cool