“And nothing at all / about how much / I love her.”
— Char March
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This poem appeared in The Thousand Natural Shocks by Char March, published by Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2011. Shared here with deep gratitude.
“trust the hours. Haven’t they / carried you everywhere, up to now?”
— Galway Kinnell
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This poem appeared in Mortal Acts, Mortal Words by Galway Kinnell, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1980. Shared here with deep gratitude.
“what you wanted / had already happened long ago”
— David Whyte
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This poem appeared in Pilgrim by David Whyte, published by Many Rivers Press, 2012. Shared here with deep gratitude.
“sometimes the willful-falling into a hole which is not the grave because it is easier than not falling into a hole really”
— Anne Boyer
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This poem appeared in BillMoyers.com, published in April 2017. Shared here with deep gratitude.
“I love you; four million in me / and fourteen more outside.”
— Farah Chamma
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This poem appeared in We Call to the Eye & the Night by Writers of Arab Heritage, edited by Hala Alyan and Zeina Hashem Beck, published by Persea Books, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.
“When I dwell in the ultimate I know / I would know her in any life.”
— Acie Clark
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This poem appeared in Shenandoah, Spring 2025. Shared here with deep gratitude.
“Tears / irrigate my anguish until anguish opens like a seedpod, // and there is only fragrance.”
— Saddiq Dzukogi
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This poem appeared in Body, Summer 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.
“Nothing really stops the pain / from crystallizing, not even the steam of anger.”
— Penelope Alegria
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This poem appeared in Variant Literature Issue 18, Spring 2024. Shared here with deep gratitude.
“Ghosts of a womb / tuck the air in guilt, // our throats heavy / with apology.”
— Sophie Zhu
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This poem appeared in Parentheses Journal Issue 10, 2020. Shared here with deep gratitude.
“I keep waking up in different / beds and in this same / body.”
— Angie Sijun Lou
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This poem appeared in Muzzle Magazine Issue 22, 2018. Shared here with deep gratitude.
