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A day is vast - Jane Hirshfield
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How fragile we are between the few good moments - Jane Hirshfield
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My partner doesn’t care much for poetry but of all the poems I’ve tried to convert her with on this rainy day, she said this is her favorite so far. She loves apples. I do not. Go figure. Jane Hirshfield
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Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life -Jane Hirshfield
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this series of lectures by Italo Calvino is fascinating. from Quickness…
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Skipping July with John Keene
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Here, you said in school. Present. - Diane Seuss
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Maybe it felt better then, but you were / not better - Diane Seuss
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Sappho
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The other day I stuck my head in the bush. - Jim Harrison
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to work
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the safest place in the world is a book - Akwaeke Emezi
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who laughs with one eye and weeps with the other - Alina Stefanescu
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Good reasons? - Tom Snarsky, the one and only
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Linda Pastan, from Almost an Elegy
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Aster. Nasturtium. Delphinium. - Jericho Brown
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something fell out of the sky —nothing like reading about the end of your world during lunch to brighten your day @PaulMMCooper
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Everything on earth bristled - Pablo Neruda; tr Stephen Mitchell
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A soft rain interrupts / the grazing - Tom Snarsky
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happy Cinco to those who celebrate with this poem by José Olivarez
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Rilke, translated by Kristofor Minta
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a while back, just because
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D. Musa Springer
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warmnight
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asking for directions
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morning flowers
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night, owls
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just a little shelter for the timeline
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wild oats for lunch
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Some early summer rain is always nice
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humble lil dandelion
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*this poem can’t help but bring a smile* Come on Tom - Tom Snarsky, Reclaimed Water
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@joelyfitch “I sat among them, confused, ready to misunderstand myself so that I could endure them” - Nietzsche also “He who sees all others in himself, and himself in all others, loses all fear” - Upanishads That’s two, my bad.
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at a complete loss for words so here’s a light and some clouds, gn
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it’s hot
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Mahmoud Darwish; tr. Fady Joudah
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work
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Ted Kooser and Jim Harrison
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Zenodotus; trans. Peter Jay
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tired and falling asleep… a sincere good night to the good people out there
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john compton
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Solmaz Sharif, Customs
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mornin’
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rain or shine, i love clouds
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morning, hippies
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rolling in rose clover
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no reason, just 13 seconds of a bird chirping in the rain
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flowers
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one of my favorite photographs, from someone who decided to leave x for all the right reasons — can’t remember his name, but he studied grasses
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make a wish
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dry summer
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looking up
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Alina Stefanescu
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beginning to rain
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ancestors 🌴
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just some blue on blue
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He roared when he won a car / he could never have fit inside. - Diane Seuss
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Mary Ruefle
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Cirrus clouds are nice and all but I miss those big, cottony cumulus ones. Like mountains in the sky.
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sew it into your soles - john compton
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#1 cloud
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feeling froggy
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happy friday flowers
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tiny smile from last year
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Just ran into a friendly little Corgi named Odin under this sunlight. A whole bunch of licks and he was off to cause mischief. Anyways, it’s nice outside.
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perfectly sober, nap powered
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three little birds and a moon cloud
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not a sign
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rainbowstuff
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in a field
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walk in the park
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Light load today and enjoying some roasted seaweed under a cherry plum tree
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