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The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

Barbara Kingsolver

I rarely think of poetry as something I make happen; it is more accurate to say that it happens to me. Like a summer storm, a house afire, or the coincidence of both on the same day.
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Poetry Summer Thinking
Everything truly important is washable.
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Housework Important
… Urban friends ask me how I can stand living here, ‘so far from everything?’ When I hear this question over the phone, I’m usually looking out the window at a forest, a running creek, and a vegetable garden, thinking: Define everything.
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Garden Running Thinking
I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Best Work Offer Thinking
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves.
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Childhood Transition Unnoticed
This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.
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Heart Mean Moving
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
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Cure First Kill
From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.
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Fallen Tree Trouble
No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world.
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Before Human Unnoticed World
I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Grew Grew Up People
As a biologist, I can’t think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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Animal Plant Thinking
Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.
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Notebook Silence Writing
A flower is a plant’s way of making love.
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Flower Making Love Way
Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need
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Charity Needs Want
Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man’s skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people’s back yards.
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Father Heart Men
You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they’re not self-sufficient.
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Crazy People Self

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