Our name derives from the Joycean idea that an epiphany is the moment when “the soul of the commonest object… seems to us radiant.†Like the semicolon in our logo, an epiphany is a pause in time followed by a shift in thinking. Like the semicolon, an epiphany can consist of a confluence between two ideas. Like the semicolon, an epiphany is both a part of language and outside of it.
"As for my first memory, it was a unicorn."
"Often, a boy and I tread / —trod—murky water."
“The balloon continued to expand until it was big enough for me to crawl inside and curl up like an embryo in a green rubber womb.”
"My newsfeed is all about babies."
"Sex is always kind of awkward, right?”
"I never meant to come back to Texas"
“yesterday was funny because you were in a terrible mood but everything was beautiful.”
"my father stands on the serrated edge of a star / and dares me to jump"
“He said he made the cranes in order to make a wish, though he didn't tell you what it was, only that it didn't come true.”
"I feel like I'm whispering all of this when I should really be shouting.”
"More than half of the men / he kissed were stardust."
"Because I was a coward I skipped Dee's funeral." Read by Russell Spitzer.
"whisper: may we always find conch shells to hear the sound of our world / as it echoes and echoes."
"The diver and the son have settled into a routine of watching what he calls 'the octopus videos' over breakfast."
"I am a God fearing man / depending on who asks"
"There was a beautiful man who lived in the same building as me on the same floor . . ."
"The sun warms the fire escape."
"I hadn't browsed among the urns of polished wood and gilt so she waits in plain black plastic"
"This room wants more. After everything goes dark, a rusted voice reveals its wishes."
"You can tell a lot about a person by their Starbucks order."
"I arrived a spy among them"
"We all wanted the same thing. None of us were certain how to get it. "
"I'd like words to bring me closer / to everyone I love"
"At sentencing, the judge found it difficult to accept my claim that my father and I were truly alone that entire trip..."
"And the other fetus—it's all right?"
"In morning meditation I think about sex and tally the dollars saved not buying daily coffee here."
"She'd thought she could drive so fast in that sleek yellow car that she'd outstrip everything else, make the world a blur."
"Two medicines must be used for the medical termination of pregnancy: mifepristone and misoprostol"
"I want to spring on you like a verb, like a wartime cat snatching a rare mouse from the floor."
"It was only after I moved to New York that I started to read the missed connections ads for my hometown."
“It was more than ten years ago that he ceded the master bedroom to her and moved his things into the downstairs guest room.”
"I tell the students language paves the way to every death"
“I gnaw off your head / Saturn devouring a lesser god.”
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