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The Thing Is

to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you’ve held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your hands, your throat filled with the silt of it. When grief sits with you, its tropical heat thickening the air, heavy as water…

4 tygodnie temu

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The World Has Need of You

         everything here          seems to need us          — Rainer Maria Rilke I can hardly imagine it as I walk to the lighthouse, feeling the ancient prayer of my arms swinging in counterpoint to my feet. Here I am, suspended between the sidewalk and twilight,…

4 tygodnie temu

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Any Common Desolation

can be enough to make you look up at the yellowed leaves of the apple tree, the few that survived the rains and frost, shot with late afternoon sun. They glow a deep orange-gold against a blue so sheer, a single bird would rip it like silk. You may have to break…

4 tygodnie temu

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Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of My Fur

Up until this sore minute, you could turn the key, pivot away. But mine is the only medicine now wherever you go or follow. The past is so far away, but it flickers, then cleaves the night. The bones of the past splinter between our teeth.…

4 tygodnie temu

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