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Warsan Shire, "Conversations About Home" from Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth

Maya C. Popa, from “Spring”, Wound Is the Origin of Wonder

Mary Oliver, “Don’t Hesitate”, Devotions

— Nizar Qabbani

Joy Sullivan, from Instructions for Traveling West: Poems; “Instructions for Traveling West”

Warsan Shire, from "For Women Who Are Difficult to Love"

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Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001

Rainy Night in Tokyo // valvey_film

Maggie Stiefvater, Linger

(Quran 12:100)

“O Allah I am nearing days that need your guidance, I ask for ease in the beginning and happiness at the end.”

George Seferis, tr. by Edmund Keeley, from Collected Poems; “The Return of the Exile,”