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Gaston de Latenay, Nausikaa scans by Book Graphics blogspot/2014

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Body, body, o dear ordinary miracle,

I want. To learn how to be bold in my body. It’s always young, it’s always old in my body

& at what age does one begin? I begin. Are you lost? Are you tide? I want you to be September, with its promise of rain. With its prophecy of storm.

— Zeina Hashem Beck, from "Ghazal-Ode for My Body," O

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“Even now, after centuries of reductionist propaganda, the world is still intricate and vast, as dark as it is light, a place of mystery, where we cannot do one thing without doing many things, or put two things together without putting many things together.”

— Wendell Berry, ‘In Distrust of Movements’ (1998)

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Faraway views (right lens of my binoculars)

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Ode to the Airport, Dante Émile

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richard siken’s new poem in the new yorker—at the link, you can hear him read it in full

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"Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."

― Street Haunting by Virginia Woolf

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j. sullivan

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How many times can the same thing break your heart? - As long as you love it.

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Wrap me in the silk of your kiss,

Forough Farrokhzad - 'Another Birth: Selected Poems;' “The Sun Shines,“

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Marina Tsvetaeva, from "Bus", Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Simon Franklin) [ID'd]

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“So fragile, like a faded rose,”

— Andrée Sodenkamp, tr. by Renée Linkhorn & Judy Cochran, from “Chinese Statuette”

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Clouds will remember us this way: pressed into grass like petals into pages, our arms each other’s spines, if we were books.

Molly Kirschner, from “Etiquette of Trees,” Notes for Further Research

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Devin Kelly, from “How to Drown”

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Best Barbarian, Roger Reeves