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"Kadiköy Ferry"
Thomas R. Moore

"I learn by going where I have to go."
Roethke

For months I’ve been trying to write a poem called
‘Kadiköy Ferry’ about how I am pulled back
to Turkey because my children were born there.

I have some evocative lines in the poem like A gypsy
girl sells flowers, her fingers curled around yellow
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"Thanks"
Benjamin Tripp

I want to write to tell you what I love
so much about your story of swimming
one day in the ocean when the big waves
didn’t scare you like they don’t scare me 
now that I understand the unintentional
life-affirming displacement of anxiety
I left my passport on the beach ( Read more... )

"The Waking"
Theodore Roethke

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.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you ( Read more... )