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When we get through this, I want us to set a table with all of…

To a Brown Boy ’Tis a noble gift to be brown, all brown,      Like…

The water is one thing, and one thing for miles. The water is one thing,…

to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and…

Like a rain I feel but cannot see, the names of the dead, falling. Silences…

I grew up in a family that did not tell the story. I am listening…

a body is always a body individual or collective (whole or in many pieces) alive…

Let plain things please you again and every ordinary Monday. Bean soup in a white…

When I can no longer say thank you for this new day and the waking…

Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around…

With lines unseen the land was broken. When surveyors came, we knew what the prophet…

To pray you open your whole self To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon…

You are not fifteen, or twelve, or seventeen— You are a hundred wild centuries And…

And the body is holding its losses like a fist. And a fleshy hope is…

We can’t believe our luck: to have found this pair of pears on the ground…

When the light around you lessens And your thoughts darken until Your body feels fear…

How did I come to be this particular version of me, and not some other,…

This is what you need to know: you need to know that otters wrap themselves…

It’s ripe, the melon by our sink. Yellow, bee-bitten, soft, it perfumes the house too…

(at St. Mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our…