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Collected Poems | 
This poem struck me hard this week as work stuff has been taking up headspace at all hours. I just completed the 30 day yoga challenge with Adriene with a friend, and we are continuing on, and also just started Sharon Salzberg‘s 28 day meditation challenge in an effort to self care during a pandemic...and yet this passage makes “calm down” seem so dang simple. I just need to get there and stay there. Somehow. ☺️
Poet as Immortal Bird
Ron Padgett, 1942
A second ago my heart thump went and I thought, "This would be a bad time to have a heart attack and die, in the middle of a poem," then took comfort in the idea that no one I have ever heard of has ever died in the middle of writing a poem, just as birds never die in mid-flight. I think."
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