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"So if, my dear, there sometimes seem to be
Old bridges breaking between you and me
Never fear. We may let the scaffolds fall
Confident that we have built our wall."
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Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney from Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996 (1998 @fsgbooks) https://poets.org/poem/scaffolding
"She tore down the last fence by the marsh. Jane d’Eau is a marvel of catastrophe, trophe by trophe, cat
by cat; she doesn’t mind if you fish, but you better know when to swim for it."
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Jane d’Eau by Tanis MacDonald, forthcoming in Tall, Grass, Girl (2026 Bookhug Press) https://poets.ca/jane-deau-by-tanis-macdonald/
When ball
moss falls
we feel
most at
a loss
to explain
why this
soft bomb
of sticks
and fine
jade colored
fronds loud
with naught
drops to
us: does
the tree
let the
moss go
or does
the tree
ask us
to hold
the moss?
~~'Epiphyte Interlude' by Cecily Parks from 'The Seeds'
As we lie down to sleep the world turns half away
through ninety dark degrees;
the bureau lies on the wall
and thoughts that were recumbent in the day
rise as the others fall,
stand up and make a forest of thick-set trees.
The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do
so many a dangerous thing,
are chugging at its edge
all camouflaged, and ready to go through
the swiftest streams, or up a ledge
of crumbling shale, while plates and trappings ring.
-- Elizabeth Bishop, "Sleeping Standing Up"
(Remainder of poem in next toot)
"What
is fire but just another need in a
long list scrawled down, torn up, then rewritten."
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T- helps me stack the firewood by Jennifer LoveGrove from The Tinder Sonnets (2026 Bookhug Press) https://bookhugpress.ca/shop/author/jennifer-lovegrove/the-tinder-sonnets-by-jennifer-lovegrove/
"There’s one spirit in countless bodies,
one oil in countless almonds,
one meaning in countless words
uttered by countless tongues.
Shatter the jugs. The water is one."
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Come out, come close. by Jalal al-Din Rumi, translated from the Farsi by Haleh Liza Gafori from Gold: Poems by Rumi (2022 New York Review Books) https://poets.org/poem/come-out-come-close
was reminded of part of an ee cummings poem while planting things
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
"I
put
on my shoes
and stand just
above
the earth"
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AFTER by Gary Barwin (2026) https://www.facebook.com/moribund.facekvetch/posts/pfbid02xjbx3BkPU4YsVHinGwN6W1RMueuiUZ4riemNxASVzEumQG55AiQ9bE2Chg33wsKAl
"She decides there is a lesson here, something about the shifting ground beneath a person and how fate might possibly swallow them whole, and it's going to be part of the story she's living as she attempts to become a person of substance."
#SundaySentence from Definitely Thriving by Kerry Clare (House of Anansi Press) https://www.thebakingbookworm.ca/2026/03/definitely-thriving-follows-life-of.html
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