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Recommendations for living. Also twelve questions, one bird, and two poems.
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These hands that have always held you
I begin a new decade overcome with love. Everything keeps on happening. One thousand hugs and gorgeous evenings. Also some new work in the world.
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Never ate so many stars
A benediction asking Everything, the only god I know, to take care of a friend I never held, and of me, and everyone else. Also a poem that haunts me…
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Never stop talking about the sun
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We drove into the sun
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In your own time
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These hands that have always held you
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My people
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It has come to my attention I love looking at birds, so now it's everyone's problem. Also a poem that sees something in everything, from the last winter…
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We drove into the sun
Let's say there is a place and you feel at home. Let's say you have a thing or two to learn before you get there. Let's say I wrote a poem. What then?
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In your own time
In four weeks every day will be wildly different. Come on, let me read you a poem.
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My people
Six weeks left in Chicago. Three times I got on the bus. The bus is a metaphor, except when it isn't. Plus a perfect poem by Charif Shanahan.
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Never stop talking about the sun
Happy Aries season! Here's some long, insane sentences on spring, all the bullshit, unspeakable fury and the struggle to be whole, not just good. Also I…
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I was every inch an animal
An incomplete catalog(ue) of what, exactly, the hell I think I've been doing. Plus I read you a poem about a living thing changing.
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Put your hand here on my heart
Treat yourself to a pomegranate and let me read you two poems—one by me, one by Pablo Neruda. You can tell which is which.
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the animal eats
love letters, poems + excellent vibes. assembled with care by kristin lueke.
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