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#PoetryMatters Day 3: #Unbending
“How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.”
Remembering Elizabeth Smart on her birthday.
panAmazing how exhausting less than a hundred pages can be. Feels like someone trying to journal through heartbreak/loss and unsuccessfully distract themselves with musing on the significance of a colour.
While blue has associations with sadness, depression, it almost feels like the author could have chosen any colour and meandered off into reflections and neat or disturbing trivia about it. 1/?
#Naturalitsy #Midwintersolace
I'm 💯 a tree sprite. Are you?
#idiominsight of course #ADimeADozen means more like , I had so many ripe zucchini at harvest time , I couldn‘t even get a dime a dozen for them.😄But I thought of old Dime stores like Woolworth‘s or Sprouse-Reitz where a kid with some change could find a toy or cheap candy. I swooned over the paperback book racks and the comic rack!
pickWhen reading Maggie Nelson, it‘s always good to have no expectations and just let the writing hum along, in this case in blue. I always enjoy her.
