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I’ve begged you to pick me or put me first for years

I’m so used to it now

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Margaret Atwood, from The Selected Poems of Margaret Atwood; "Thoughts from Underground,"

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Catherine Owen ~ The house becomes

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The rain is a broken piano,

playing the same note over and over.

My five-year-old said that.

Already she knows loving the world

means loving the wobbles

you can't shim, the creaks you can't

oil silent—the jerry-rigged parts,

MacGyvered with twine and chewing gum.

Let me love the cold rain's plinking.

Let me love the world the way I love

my young son, not only when

he cups my face in his sticky hands,

but when, roughhousing,

he accidentally splits my lip.

Let me love the world like a mother.

Let me be tender when it lets me down.

Let me listen to the rain's one note

and hear a beginner's song.

Maggie Smith ~ Rain, New Year’s Eve

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Barely has the body, long used to luxury,

gone cold than it becomes itself a tasty dish.

Food for worms. Let this serve as fair warning,

a reminder to men, who want wisdom.

Maurice Riordan

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“I feel myself shutting down, closing off, like I should tell people, ‘No, we don’t use this heart anymore. It’s too fragile.’”

— Courtney C. Stevens

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They were just living you see.

Not leaving behind.

Catherine Owen

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Catherine Owen

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happy "everyone forgets that icarus also flew" monday. i want to throw up !

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Joy Sullivan

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Lipogram by Stephanie Choi

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bought this gem secondhand and can’t get over how stunning it is 🪐 reblog is okay, don’t repost/use

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Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

for the movie

Stephanie Choi

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I carried my fear of the world

to my children, but they refused it.

I carried my fear of the world

on my chest, where I once carried

my children, where some nights it slept

as newborns sleep, where it purred

but mostly growled, where it licked

sweat from my clavicles.

I carried my fear of the world

and apprenticed myself to the fear.

I carried my fear of the world

and it became my teacher.

I carried it, and it repaid me

by teaching me how to carry it.

I carried my fear of the world

the way an animal carries a kill in its jaws

but in reverse: I was the kill, the gift.

Whose feet would I be left at?

I carried my fear of the world

as if it could protect me from the world.

I carried my fear of the world

and for my children modeled marveling

at its beauty but keeping my hands still—

keeping my eyes on its mouth, its teeth.

I carried my fear of the world.

I stroked it or I did not dare to stroke it.

I carried my fear of the world

and it became my teacher.

It taught me how to keep quiet and still

I carried my fear of the world

and my love for the world.

I carried my terrible awe.

I carried my fear of the world

without knowing how to set it down.

I carried my fear of the world

and let it nuzzle close to me,

and when it nipped, when it bit

down hard to taste me, part of me

shined: I had been right.

I carried my fear of the world

and it taught me I had been right.

I carried it and loved it

for making me right.

I carried my fear of the world

and it taught me how to carry it.

I carried my fear of the world

to my children and laid it down

at their feet, a kill, a gift.

Or I was laid at their feet.

What I Carried by Maggie Smith (Good Bones)

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YOUR HOMEWORLD IS GONE

Leslie J. Anderson

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Facing Wine by Li Po

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