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K.Yamada

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what are these invisible strings when i have nothing to offer but darkness? in this quiet i am pierced by a dangerous call: the magnificent recoiling from everything that is life, a quick and silent disengaging. in these moments i make precious the cradling of my own gravity. i move and strain towards my anchors in the new mercy of every morning.

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whatever this is

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Carol Dorf, from "Spring, again"

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Mia Kankimäki, frrom "The Women I Think About at Night," originally published in 2020

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“Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.”

— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

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If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it had better not come at all.

Bright Star (2009) dir. Jane Campion

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Joy Sullivan, “(Luck IV)”, Instructions for Traveling West

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2046 (2004) dir. Wong Kar Wai

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“You are so full of rain. There is so much that’s growing. Hallelujah to your weather veins. Hallelujah to the ache. Hallelujah to the full and to the fall, to the pull and to the pain.”

— Andrea Gibson, from The Madness Vase; “I Sing the Body Electric, Especially When My Power’s Out”

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𝔰𝔲𝔪𝔪𝔢𝔯 𝔰𝔦𝔪𝔭𝔩𝔦𝔠𝔦𝔱𝔶

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𝔰𝔭𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔪𝔬𝔯𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤

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this is what it means to be human

Everything, Mary Oliver

The Breathing, Denise Levertov

A Prayer by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski

Like a Small Café, That’s Love by Mahmoud Darwish (translated by Mohammad Shaheen)

Having a Coke with You by Frank O’Hara

Eating Together by Li-Young Lee

The Orange by Wendy Cope

The Quiet Machine, Ada Limón

To Go Mad, Paruyr Sevak

Our Beautiful Life When It’s Filled with Shrieks by Christopher Citro

Hammond B3 Organ Cistern, Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Peace XVIII, Khalil Gibran

Your Unripe Love, Paruyr Sevak (from “Anthology of Armenian poetry")

Here and Now by Peter Balakian

Ich finde dich (I find you) by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Thing Is by Ellen Bass

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

Miss you. Would like to take a walk with you. by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

I Want to Write Something So Simply by Mary Oliver

What's Not to Love by Brendan Constantine

Where does such tenderness come from? by Marina Tsvetaeva

You Are Tired (I Think) by E. E. Cummings

Living With the News by W.S.Merwin

What the Living Do by Marie Howe

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Homecoming, Tathev Simonyan

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Joy Sullivan, from "Long Division", Instructions for Traveling West