Andrew Shields · @AndrewShields
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What we did to the earth, we did to our daughters
one after the other.

What we did to the trees, we did to our elders
stacked in their wheelchairs by the lunchroom door.

What we did to our daughters, we did to our sons
calling out for their mothers.

Marie Howe
Postscript

poetryfoundation.org/poetrymag

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Andrew Shields · @AndrewShields
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Part of Eve's Discussion by Marie Howe

It was like the moment when a bird decides not to eat from your hand,
and flies, just before it flies, the moment the rivers seem to still
and stop because a storm is coming, but there is no storm . . .

poets.org/poem/part-eves-discu

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Laura Esckelson · @soulclaphands
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Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity
we once were?

Singularity by Marie Howe
poets.org/poem/singularity

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Harry Watson · @Thebestisyettocome
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'What the Silence Says' by Marie Howe

I know that you think you already know but–

Wait

Longer than that

even longer than that.

#mariehowe #silentsunday #poetry

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