Safia Elhillo, from Spring
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Emily Dickinson, from Poem #1320 ("Dear March--Come in--"), The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson [ID'd]
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to the young who want to die by Gwendolyn Brooks
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four metal chopsticks engraved with a quote from the poem "north country" by mary oliver:
you listen and you know you could / live a better life than you do, / be softer, kinder. and maybe / this year you will be able to do it. (ig @jannekemakes)
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April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain.
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
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Marina Tsvetaeva, from "My ear attends to you", Selected Poems (trans. Elaine Feinstein, with Maxwell Shorter)
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entreaty by Catherine Pierce
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fatima aamer bilal, excerpt from i mother it, the absence of her ii. i was hard to bear from the very start.
[text id: april regrets me like a parent does a child. i stand for everything it does not. i have maimed it with sadness. april did give birth to me under a fruity tree, but i was born with chainsaw hands.]
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