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Robin Davidson, "Winter Litany"

I confess I was never patient enough to sit and watch the snow fall for a little while.

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Bashō, "Here, where a thousand captains swore"

The only legacy which matters is a space for others.

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Yosa Buson, "The old fisherman"

I wonder if this is aging: refusing to look elsewhere, focusing on the object in front.

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Seamus Heaney, "North"

We travel to see history and find dust.

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Kay Ryan, "Why We Must Struggle"

At some point, the world is in fact a moral order, because it cannot be otherwise.

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Charles Simic, "In the Street"

Simic's "In the Street" voices a compelling, somewhat hopeless romanticism.

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Wisława Szymborska, "Vermeer"

I've encountered plenty of monsters who have immersed themselves in what they think is a moral vision.

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Emily Dickinson, "I never saw a Moor" (1052)

You don't have to be a pagan to know that some areas are meant to be wild and untouched.

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Andrea Cohen, "Seaside"

It's funny how planning can be the achievement itself.

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Kay Ryan, "We’re Building the Ship as We Sail It"

...you shouldn’t reason the same way in emergencies as you do when things are normal.

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Kay Ryan, "Crocodile Tears"

The tropes are in charge, far more than actual people.

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Marcin Świetlicki, "Photograph"

It is not a loss to recognize how you remember and how you love.

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Robert Creeley, "Small Time"

Robert Creeley's "Small Time" is a conversational poem.

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Emily Dickinson, "Spring is the Period" (844)

You will have your days on Earth and they will be numbered.

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Marcin Świetlicki, "April 1, Wągrowiec, Poland"

Świetlicki grabs you, spins you around, and throws you into a dark, remote place.

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Jennifer Chang, "Ceremony"

Ceremonies ask you to commit.

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Franz Wright, "P.S."

Wright establishes empathy with an animal's ordeal.

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Frederick Seidel, "Snow"

The being of snow is its activity.

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Kobayashi Issa, "On a branch…"

An insect makes their own boat and then launches into their opera, like a Venetian gondolier.

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Kei Miller, "Book of Genesis"

God creates, exercising their freedom, and frees.

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Natalie Diaz, "From the Desire Field"

"From the Desire Field" is most certainly living in the fullest sense, a sense I want.

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Carol Snow, "Tour"

The recognition that everything is sacred means recognizing the beauty and necessity of the fallen blossoms.

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Emily Dickinson, "When I have seen the Sun emerge" (888)

Dickinson's "When I have seen the Sun emerge" is an easy poem to indulge.

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Carolina Ebeid, "letter to the Corinthians"

She lets "magnificent" sit on a line all by itself, as if the word alone deserves as much space as it can get.

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Kevin Young, "Resume"

The poem is not shy about life emerging from dirt. Worse than dirt, truth be told.