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@practical Jan 26, 2018, 2:17 AM UTC

Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems

“The black side of my family owned slaves”: That’s a key line in the first and the last of the poems in Lewis’s varied first collection, whose poems short and long braid her own family history into a…

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@practical Jan 25, 2018, 10:42 AM UTC

The Enkindled Spring

This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green, Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes, Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between Where the wood fumes up and the watery,…

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@practical Jan 25, 2018, 10:33 AM UTC

O were my love yon Lilac fair

O were my love yon Lilac fair, Wi’ purple blossoms to the Spring, And I, a bird to shelter there, When wearied on my little wing! How I wad mourn when it was torn By Autumn wild, and Winter rude! But…

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@practical Jan 25, 2018, 10:26 AM UTC

Ode to Spring

I can only find words for. And sometimes I can’t. Here are these flowers that stand for. I stand here on the sidewalk. I can’t stand it, but yes of course I understand it. Everything has to have mean…

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@practical Jan 25, 2018, 10:02 AM UTC

Spark of the Sky Stag’s Great Heart

strung from a thought arrived through the keyhole grasping the hand of another I will begin with my mouth then live with antlers remembering the light inside, always to breathe this unforgetting and…

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@practical Jan 25, 2018, 9:57 AM UTC

Do Not Speak of the Dead

“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” —Mexican Proverb I was born among the bodies. I was hurried forward, and sealed a thin life for myself. I have shortened my name, and walk wit…

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@practical Jan 25, 2018, 9:50 AM UTC

This Page Ripped Out and Rolled into a Ball

A rose by any other name could be Miguel or Tiffany Could be David or Vashti Why not Aya which means beautiful flower but also verse and miracle and a bird that flies away quickly You see where this…

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@practical Jan 24, 2018, 4:21 PM UTC

Answer my riddle

“So I hear you’re good with computers. How do I open this file.” “Double-click on it.” click......................................................click “That didn’t do anything.” https://i.redditmedi…

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@practical Jan 24, 2018, 4:16 PM UTC

John Williams has been nominated for an Oscar 51 times, averaging one nomination a year since his first in 1967

There are some names that just synonymous with the Academy Awards. Meryl Streep has been nominated 19 times, but she doesn't hold a candle to the composer of some of the great scores in movie history…

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@practical Jan 24, 2018, 4:09 PM UTC

What is extremely rare but people think it’s very common?

If the BBC has taught me anything, it would be murders in small British villages. https://brainberries.co/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/10-Extremely-Rare-But-Interesting-Body-Features-04.jpg

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