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mist comes right then, laying the salt air gently on the fruit, you have something that money can’t buy and chefs can’t create. A perfect, lightly salted blackberry. You can’t make them; it has to come with time and nature. They’re a gift, when you think summer’s over and the good stuff has all gone. They’re a gift.”’ Our path, our magnificent
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Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
Mammoths and Ants
Look at the fragile mushrooms.
Look at the black widow.
Pause with me a moment,
and hear the cicadas humming.
Here is where I’m home, among the
mammoth red woods.
When I was lost, the ants absorbed me,
calling me to the smallness of Earth.
There I heard the song of silence.
Come with me through the miniscule.
Listen, the cicadas are
Joshua Clover, 1962–2025 – Rosa Press
Strawberries first shaped my view of a world full of gifts simply scattered at your feet.
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Just a moment...
poetryfoundation.org
Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps (Andrea Gibson)
I wasn't by any means a natural.
Was not one of those wow-hounds
born jaw-dropped. I was tough in the husk.
Went years untouched by rain. Took shelter
seriously, even and often especially
in good weather, my tears like teenagers
hiding under the hoods of my eyes,
so committed