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Linda Haslanger's avatar

I have a feeling that this will speak to many people today. It certainly spoke to me. Thank you.

Julia Sereno's avatar

So strong... "laughter spilling from the cracks in our sorrow"

I'll use this poem with a student tomorrow. Thank you🌸

Elizabeth Stamper's avatar

Thank you for continuing to educate me, expose me, to the incredible word-soul-geniuses that have made such music with the English language. Powerful poem!

Tommy Swerdlow's avatar

great one

Thomas Cleary's avatar

Clean socks and holes in our shoes capture the gist of this poem.

Robin Bradley Hansel's avatar

Just the poem I needed today. Thank you.

Gabriel B.'s avatar

coffee and clean socks as small graces. yes, that part got me

Mathuani the Dream Machine's avatar

I was shocked at the power of those lines… the depth…

What a mighty poet

M L Martin's avatar

I feel this way nearly every day of my life. It's impossible that we are all still here!!!!

Charles B Taylor Jr.'s avatar

Great poem, I say again.

An's avatar

I like this because

resilience is notheroic transcendence but quiet maintenance — continuing to laugh, to be kind, to notice small graces amid on going suffering.

Thank you

cal lash's avatar

"Amid the small Terrors of life."

I quit wearing socks at 84.

Can't bend over.

At 28 i quit wearing a safeguarding sock. Surgery reduced big possible problems.

Today its Clean Sheets.

Donca Vianu's avatar

Very much to the point.

Thank you.

Antonio Castellaneta's avatar

Perhaps the miracle is not that we keep hoping. It is that we keep returning to life after everything that could have closed us.