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Poetry

Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower

by Rainer Maria Rilke, Translation by Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows
Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around…
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Trail of Tears: Our Removal

by Linda Hogan
With lines unseen the land was broken. When surveyors came, we knew what the prophet…
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Eagle Poem

by Joy Harjo
To pray you open your whole self To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon…
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When a Certain Word Comes to You

by Andrea Potos
This morning it was fluency, the title of a poem I found in a book…
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A House Called Tomorrow

by Alberto Ríos
You are not fifteen, or twelve, or seventeen— You are a hundred wild centuries And…
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It looks like the sky is coming apart and together at the same time*

by Maya Stein
And the body is holding its losses like a fist. And a fleshy hope is…
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Windfall

by Brit Washburn
We can’t believe our luck: to have found this pair of pears on the ground…
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For Courage

by John O'Donohue
When the light around you lessens And your thoughts darken until Your body feels fear…
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The Once Invisible Garden

by Laura Foley
How did I come to be this particular version of me, and not some other,…
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The Otters and the Seaweed

by Teddy Macker
This is what you need to know: you need to know that otters wrap themselves…
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August Morning

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

by Lucille Clifton
(at St. Mary's) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our…
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