Today's poem:

Olympus
- by Matthew Olzmann

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/778801082507870208/olympus?source=share

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Today's poem:

Earthlings
- by Matthew Olzmann

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/734768639898763265/the-earthlings?source=share

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Tell me what it’s like to live without

curiosity, without awe. To sail

on clear water, rolling your eyes

at the kelp reefs swaying

beneath you, ignoring the flicker

of mermaid scales in the mist,

looking at the world and feeling

only boredom.

Matthew Olzmann

Letter to the Person Who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America

https://poetry.lib.uidaho.edu/category/matthew-olzmann/

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