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Baron Wormser: Dark Time

I know the purity of pure despair,
My shadow pinned against a sweating wall.
That place among the rocks—is it a cave,
Or winding path? The edge is what I have.

May 18, 2025 · 20 Comments

Theodore Roethke: The Waking

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

March 20, 2024 · 10 Comments

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