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'cause it's getting heavy.
Hell, I thought it was already
as heavy as can be.

—Flaming Lips
(via Iron & Wine)

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Note: Discretion and self-care advised in exploring the following.

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Poem: Darkness

Poem: How Dark the Beginning

Poem: Abandoned Farmhouse

Poem: Building with Its Face Blown Off

Poem: Bad Movie, Bad Audience

Poem: The Second Coming

Poem: Family Stories

Poem: For the Thief

Poem: Not So Far as the Forest

Poem: For a Five-Year-Old

Poem: How Good Fortune Surprises Us

Poem: Shopping

Poem: Science

Poem: Lead

Poem: Heavy Tells a Story

Crossing Spider Creek

When they come for the poets

Against Forgetting

Staying Alive

Dorianne Laux

Sharon Olds

Lisel Mueller

Faith Shearin

Chase Twichell

Maggie Smith

Mary Karr

Sophie Jewett

Sylvia Plath

Alison Hawthorne Deming

Erika L. Sánchez

Natasha Trethewey

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Cormac McCarthy

Sound of the Beast

Heavier Than Heaven

Bearing witness

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