“The first half having been / given up to space, I decided / to devote my remaining life to time, this thing we live / on fishily or on like moss,” reads Hannah Sullivan from her poem “Happy Birthday,” which appears in her collection Was It for This, in this Faber & Faber video featuring photographs and archival footage.
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