Suzanne Vega
Steve Turner, Q, 1986
Suzanne Vega had a feeling and tried to imagine what shape this feeling would have if it had been an object. She imagined it small and blue, like a marble or an eye. She imagined it lost, tumbling and falling. She imagined it fragile, reflective and silent.
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