Jason Throckmorton
@throck
Jason Throckmorton
@throck
Today
By Billy Collins
If ever there were a spring day so perfect,
so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze
that it made you want to throw
open all the windows in the house
and unlatch the door to the canary's cage,
indeed, rip the little door from its jamb,
a day when the cool brick paths
and the garden bursting with peonies
seemed so etched in sunlight
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“You can’t talk butterfly language with caterpillar people.”
Trish Deseine
There are the things we fear that we should, and the things that we should fear but don’t.
Most people fear dying. Most people don’t fear, don’t care, that they are living a kind of death.
Agrippinus, one of the great Stoics of Nero’s time, refused to compromise his belief or to keep a low profile even though it put him in danger of running afoul of
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