January 2012
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the magic place →
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November — with uncanny witchery in its changed trees. With murky red sunsets...
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L.M. Montgomery, from ‘The Blue Castle’.
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I came from the hidden earth : a short film by Florian Gerbaud.
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I dreamt you naked in the creek
Your skin all stars and crying gulls –
Your...
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Bethany van Rijswijk, from ‘Water Hyacinths’.
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Winter is for women—
The woman, still at her knitting,
At the cradle of...
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Sylvia Plath, from ‘Wintering’.
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moon is sharp →
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Fools, do you think the moon is caught lightly,
With glitter and silk threads?...
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Lisel Mueller, from ‘Moon Fishing’.
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Still wet with the birth-damp of spring,
A litter of leaves and russet seedpods...
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‘Spring Canticle’, Bethany van Rijswijk.
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December 2011
19 posts
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They sing and sing deeply.
So to fall, face-down in the grass.
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Onė Baliukonė.
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The fern in the rain breathes the silver message.
Stay, lie low. Play your dark...
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Anne Coray.
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Where are you my children?
The lilies have grown,
The clumps need dividing...
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Ina Kontvainytė.
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We are involved with flower, leaf, and fruit.
They speak not just the language...
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Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. Stephen Mitchell.
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You cannot hear the weeping of the god
Over the Pyrrhic rains –
The ecstatic...
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‘Amalthea’, Bethany van Rijswijk.