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old hat after the earthquake change your bedding Sandra Stephenson

Drinking coffee. Drinking another coffee. Sun on the wall. Just Sun. Erin Mouré, from "Purpose," The Elements

And to write of the dead  Is also a game, which grows heavy With what’s coming. Tomas Tranströmer / Don Coles

The chimp signs hugs in his enclosure. -- Michael Robbins, "Live Rust" ( The Second Sex , Penguin 2014) By permission of the author

A distant relative at your wedding. Don’t wait for the water to turn to wine. Don’t wait for more cake to be served. Tomasina Salmon

You can’t order take out for your husband and the pigs. You comb your daughter's long golden hair. Where are they going, the stars? Tomasina Salmon

Proverbs Tomasina Salmon made the Conservative Party blink, tamed it, dismantled it, then reconstituted it. Tomasina Salmon said, “Americans Get Out!” and they did. Tomasina Salmon sleeps in the forest. Tomasina Salmon