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Sudden shower -
a flock of sparrows
clinging to the grasses.

Buson

Translated by Robert Hass

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A Day Is Vast

A day is vast.
Until noon.
Then it’s over.

Yesterday’s pondwater
braided still wet in my hair.

I don’t know what time is.

You can’t ever find it.
But you can lose it.

Jane Hirshfield

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@motleybookshelf Wave Books i found that this poem goes with this photograph:

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Dr. Han VanderHart is on Bluesky @motleybookshelf Me going deep down.

@motleybookshelf here’s an 🍊 poem by Meng Hao-jan, tr. David Hinton :)

I could not have asked for a better review of my new poetry collection THIS FAR NORTH out now from Black Lawrence Press: bit.ly/3LFQpuA. Thank you, @motleybookshelf, for your incredibly kind words.

@motleybookshelf Can you identify this rose? It stopped me in my tracks the other day!

@motleybookshelf I just picked this up an hour ago. It’s probably not exactly what you’re talking about, but it’s a great project!

@motleybookshelf Nicole Arocho Hernández Anna Świrszczyńska transl by Czesław Miłosz & Leonard Nathan in an old edition of Postwar Polish Poetry

in Polish this title is a single word, “Dyszę”—many of the words have more syllables & a more breathless feeling. ty for reminding me, i too am craving reading more of her!

@motleybookshelf Maybe you'll enjoy this rainbow I saw in the Utah desert a couple autumns ago

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Anna Gasaway (she/her) **IT'S THE GUNS** @motleybookshelf I wrote this one: twitter.com/JoshLuckenbach…
No extra credit for me though :(

@motleybookshelf writing poetry as tuning into the fact that living and being dead are the same thing; it’s a way of approaching and seeing clearly the truth of death and forging an ethics of stillness and respect ~ poem as way of developing this strange discipline

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@motleybookshelf 💚 one by sebastián h páramo i've continued to think about poets.org/poem/tejano-co…

and one of mine twitter.com/diana_cao/stat…

@motleybookshelf Larissa Szporluk, a lyric poet, might fit the bill here.

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@motleybookshelf About Place Journal Angel Rust ACM The BeZine Online Quarterly Bi Women Quarterly We would gladly consider visual poetry for our current submissions call: verseofapril.com/submissions