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my tears live in a lake i never touch.
...and for the last 268 days, i have thoroughly documented each encounter with them.
Sep 25
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August 2024
so much depends upon a red wheelbarrow.
if i can tell you one thing, it is this: your story will begin with a knucklebone.
Aug 14
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so much depends upon a red wheelbarrow.
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May 2024
what do we do when we are dying?
because you too are not so unlike these trees. it would be easy to say that this is because you are alive— but no, it is because you are also dying.
May 9
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what do we do when we are dying?
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April 2024
can a poem save a life?
to suggest that a poem can save a life is to first imply an understanding of what constitutes a life that requires saving.
Apr 22
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can a poem save a life?
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one might still offer even to the betrayed world a rose.
living seems to me to be something like this— less an act of figuring out 'how' and more an act of realising 'oh yes'.
Apr 8
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one might still offer even to the betrayed world a rose.
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March 2024
a rainbow does nothing.
but you can still be weak before it: a caretaker of silence, a connoisseur of stillness, a listener of wind.
Mar 26
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a rainbow does nothing.
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distrust everything if you have to. but trust the hours. haven’t they carried you everywhere, up to now?
it’s the dream of all poems, and the text of all loves: Tenderness toward Existence.
Mar 12
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distrust everything if you have to. but trust the hours. haven’t they carried you everywhere, up to now?
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because all this mess grief makes, it makes with love.
there are particular places things go when they are taken from us— the tip of our tongue and the back of our mind— where storage is easy, but retrieval…
Mar 1
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because all this mess grief makes, it makes with love.
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February 2024
your one hundred valentines.
or: compensations for those who feel ill-prepared for the privileges of living
Feb 14
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your one hundred valentines.
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it's a dangerous thing to have a soul.
clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.
Feb 6
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it's a dangerous thing to have a soul.
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January 2024
i thank you god for this most amazing ache which is natural which is infinite which is yes
i have read how Lord Byron on his death bed turned to a friend and said he had known but three happy hours during his whole existence.
Jan 28
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i thank you god for this most amazing ache which is natural which is infinite which is yes
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the true life is elsewhere. we are not in the world.
but in order to see it, first you must imagine everything you can imagine. and then you must keep going.
Jan 18
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the true life is elsewhere. we are not in the world.
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