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Franz Wright, from Walking to Martha's Vineyard; “Flight”

What I Like About Poetry by Ellen Bass

To love like a dog. To give everything and receive nothing but table scraps. To always want more.

— octobersfilm on substack (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

Roger Reeves, from "The Broken Fields Mended", Best Barbarian

Patrycja Humienik, We Contain Landscapes

The Suitor by Jane Kenyon

In a Dream by Anna Akhmatova

Kim Addonizio, from Wild Nights: New & Selected Poems; “Postmodern Romance: Internet Dating”

Kim Addonizio, from Wild Nights: New & Selected Poems; “Pareidolia”

L. V., exhumed writings

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Taking Care  Callista Buchen

Prayer by Marie Howe

[TEXT ID: "I hope October brings you peace — I hope it brings you a chance to feel more alive, to see something from the skies and birds, and pay attention to how the butterflies fly away beautifully from one flower to the other one. I hope October brings you another reason to be thankful. I hope October shows us some people who love us to have lunch together, share your meals together, and to love, to dance, to laugh and move on. I know you are trying your best right now. I hope October brings you luck to notice something, feel something, and carry on." END ID]