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this is so rogue but does anyone have the poetry template that went semi-viral on twitter a while back? it was designed for kids but someone gave it to their mother who has dementia and she wrote a really moving poem about her experience.

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I can’t undo all I have done to myself, what I have let an appetite for love do to me.

I have wanted all the world, its beauties and its injuries; some days, I think that is punishment enough.

— Maya C. Popa, from "Dear Life," Wound Is the Origin of Wonder

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Bright Dead Things, Ada Limón.

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Bright Dead Things, Ada Limón.

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The Nightfields, The Devotions, Joanna Klink.

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Don't Call Us Dead, Bare, Danez Smith.

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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, the Libation Bearers, the Eumenides, Aeschylus, tr. and foreword by Robert Fagles.

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Erotism: Death and Sensuality, Georges Bataille.

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headline from the nature briefing today / Map of the World, seperis

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Don't Call Us Dead, 1 in 2, Danez Smith.

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Mary Oliver, “1945–1985: Poem For The Anniversary.” Dream Work

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Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

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I hope you won’t need pills like I do. I think I get so scared because I’m greedy — I want to hold onto everything, the world wants to take it away.

— Mikko Harvey, from "For M," Let the World Have You

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Anne Carson, from Autobiography of Red

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Grief Lessons: four plays by Euripides, tr. Anne Carson.

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Good Girl and Other Yearnings, Isabelle Correa

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Jean Anouilh (trans. Lewis Galantière), Antigone