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25 March 2023
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We all do harm by being.

And you could say it will always be this way. But in the smallest echelons of time and thought, like a double-helix whipping out from your wondering, I would say, “Listen.” And you would. After that, we would think nothing of a quote like this one: Take and take and water in wildness. We are […]

25 March 2023
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The problem with a story that everyone is living.

I don’t know how I came to this essay by the poet Tishani Doshi, on the death of her dog.  It feels like a long time, the time in which I’m reading it. I want death to be peaceful.  To be able to go to sleep and never wake up.  But here is her body and here is death […]

25 March 2023
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(He also talked about eternal vigilance.)

This today, some things I’m thinking, in response to an old post / newsletter essay by the poet Andrea Gibson (whose work — don’t get me wrong — I love and treasure…), about forgiveness as a necessary step in creating a truly peaceful world: South African anti-apartheid and social rights activist Desmund Tutu said, “Without forgiveness, […]

25 March 2023
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How can I explain.

Reading “Allegory” by Diane Seuss.  And so this today, perhaps to tell.  Perhaps to keep: You had to go to them. They did not come to you. —being Diane Seuss, on dictionaries. (Being Diane Seuss also, and effectively, on words.) * Elsewhere in the poem, this part—is this not the making of a poem, that she is […]

25 March 2023
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