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World, Linda Pastan, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Languages, English

I Am Learning to Abandon the World by Linda Pastan

By T.

16 February 2023

1.34k

"And every night I give my body up / limb by limb, working upwards / across bone, towards the heart."

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being broken, readalittlepoetry, snow, surrender, tenderness, trees, universe, wounds, poetry, grief, moon, mornings, death, body, nature

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World, Ada Limón, Poetry, United States of America, Collection, Read More Women, Latinx, Languages, English

I Remember the Carrots by Ada Limón

By T.

17 January 2021

573

"I loved them: my own bright dead things. / I’m thirty-five and remember all that I’ve done wrong."

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yearning, surrender, power, questions, self, wanting, poetry, persistence, memory, nature

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World, Raymond Carver, Poetry, United States of America, Languages, English

Rain by Raymond Carver

By T.

13 December 2012

3.02k

"Would I live my life over again? / Make the same unforgiveable mistakes?"

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rain, readalittlepoetry, self, surrender, poetry, wisdom, wounds, living, grace, existence, journeys, growing old, mistakes

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