January 2011
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The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do,
and began, though the voices around you
kept shouting their bad advice—
though the whole house began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!” each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations,
though their...
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Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to...