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You could smell the day’s heat even before the day began.
Constant trickle, endless green trees flanking the highway:
summer had come back. . . .
It’s the best part of the day, morning light sliding
down rooftops, treetops, the birds pulling themselves
up out of whatever stupor darkened their wings, . . .
—From "I Never Wanted to Die," a poem by Dorianne Laux (Poem-a-Day, April 16, 2021, Academy of American Poets).
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
—From "Wild Geese," a poem by Mary Oliver.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
—From "Wild Geese," a poem by Mary Oliver.
Up ahead it’s white. Snow animal,
I’m running at your back. I’ve failed to tell you
I’ve been hungry all this time, . . .
I’ve been hungry all this time, . . .
—From "Color," a poem by Tina Chang (Hybrida: Poems, W. W. Norton, 2019).
Today is the day the first bare-chested
runners appear, coursing down College Hill
as I drive to campus to teach, . . .
—From "First Warm Day in a College Town," a poem by Beth Ann Fennelly (Unmentionables, W. W. Norton, 2008).
runners appear, coursing down College Hill
as I drive to campus to teach, . . .
—From "First Warm Day in a College Town," a poem by Beth Ann Fennelly (Unmentionables, W. W. Norton, 2008).
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