I’m still trying to figure out the difference between wanting someone to love you and wanting someone to let you love them.
-B. Devine
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I know it’s late, but here is my Thanksgiving piece. #27 in my Typewriter Series.
I envy the grace of the sunrise as it shines through the mist and settles on golden fields. How easy it is for the sun to make something that dreary look so beautiful.
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“I believe people are reading more poetry because we distrust the diatribe, the easy answer, the argument that holds only one note. Poetry makes its music from specificity and empathy. It speaks to the whole complex notion of what it means to be human.”
— Ada Limón, for PBS NewsHour
Excuse my clumsy fingers. Grief makes me careless.
With a title like that it would be rude not to
Finally checked the concierge and lo and behold this book had arrived from @xoxohomeless (probably months ago I am very lazy with checking in)
I am digging his poetry.
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― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
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“I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.”
— Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed