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26th "… I held
Back about love
All those years:
Talking about death
Insistently, even
As I was alive;
Talking about loss
As if all was loss,
As if the world
Did not return
Each morning."
— Gregory Orr, from Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved
November 26th
Tags: poetry, lit, Gregory Orr, thoughts that breathe, Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved, loss,

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