don’t you love when you’re casually reading a random poem and suddenly come across a line that burrows into your bones and becomes the definition of your heart for the next 17 years
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Dulce María Loynaz, tr. by James O’Connor, from Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems
[Text ID: “Your hands have a strange clarity. Have you been walking among the stars?”]
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Marina Tsvetaeva, from The Selected Poems; "Where Does Such Tenderness,"
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Carl Phillips, "Fixed Shadow, Moving Water", Then the War: New and Selected Poems [ID'd]
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Solmaz Sharif, Look: Poems; “Look”
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Kate Baer, from And Yet: Poems; “Bliss”
[Text ID: “the moon of her eyes.”]
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mary oliver, from "to begin with, the sweet grass," in evidence
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