Past-Mercedes says, bland to the point of frigidity, "You've done so much in your tenure here, Dr. Davis. Don't you want to see what that looks like on the other side?"
from "Solve for X" by Kristen Koopman
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Green garden wisdom
will teach our children
to approach the Earth
as tenders of life,
the clean living food
and joy for the eyes
the Mother gives back
when we come in love.
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You think it's been a month. Maybe two. You're still content, but not at peace, and The Cat is fucking sick of it.
from "The Climacteric" by Caren Gussoff Sumption
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This is one page in the city’s warped, water-spotted annals that unsettles him the most, that bleeds its ink into his bones and poisons him with a strange grief.
from "The Ferryman Makes His Morning Crossing" by Corey Davis
“When I became a mother, I was handed more than a child — I was handed a storm.”
A piece from my heart — for every mother who has ever sat quietly in the dark, wondering if she’s the only one carrying so much.
You're not alone. The storm within you is real. And your strength, even in silence, is extraordinary. 🌧️💛
#MotherhoodUnfiltered #PoetryForMothers #SelfDiscovery #HealingWords #MotherhoodPoetry #EmotionalPoetry #SpokenWord #PoetryCommunity #WomenWriters…
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Robert clutches the book to his chest a little too tightly, as if 383 pages of Fantasy Fiction could shield him from this conversation.
from "The Secret Ingredient" by B. Zelkovich
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In a hundred years the bones and the earth will have settled into each other like lovers, and the ancient petrified stumps will be dwarfed by the new forest.
from "Sister Death" by Erin Kissick
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It was a privilege to sing to the dead.
from "Roil" by A.C. Luke
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The great struggle of a collections librarian on The Nautilus was one of enormous abundance in the face of limited holding capacity.
from "A Collections Librarian of the Slow Flying Nautilus" by Mae Juniper Stokes
Frank's mail still comes to your house, though he does not live there.
from "Not At This Address" by Emmie Christie
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“THE DYNAMITER is a hugely inventive & brilliant book, at once a political thriller, a blackly comic satire, & a female adventure”
Download a free ebook of THE DYNAMITER by Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson via @gutenberg_org
3/3
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/647
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“Without Fanny, there would be no Robert Louis Stevenson as we know him. He probably would not have written Treasure Island or finished Kidnapped, and Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde might well have been a different story from the one the world knows today”
—Camille Peri on LitHub
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https://lithub.com/how-fanny-and-robert-louis-stevenson-defied-victorian-relationship-conventions/
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Robert Louis Stevenson & Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne married #OTD, 19 May, 1880. In this article, Prof Penny Fielding explores the dangerous collaboration between RLS & his wife: granting female agency on the page & in life
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https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2017/01/06/a-dangerous-collaboration/
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The day the shot cleared the FDA, the shelves at my bakery emptied by noon. I could almost smell their frenzy, mixed with the cinnamon rolls and salty winter slush.
from "A Hint of Sugar" by Elizabeth Rankin
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In the manual, as he scanned it (repetition 232), he saw all the ways that one could prevent death. Early death and bugs were preventable and treatable. Or else you just had a bad machine.
from "Into the Shell" by K.L. Marsh
A liquid voice, almost songlike.
from "First to Go" by Jenny Perry Carr
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On a particularly onerous day at work, she raised the temperature of her least favorite co-workers’ coffee a few degrees; his shout made her shoulders go liquid past lunchtime.
from "Is That New?" by Rosamund Lannin
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Dr Candice Goucher’s lecture, given in 2021 for the Scottish PEN Writers for Peace Committee, celebrates the life, poetry & activism of Helen Cruickshank, & explores how the themes of her work resonate for writers today
4/4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byrjIZX3B6M
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“Bide the storm ye canna hinder”
Jenni Calder on Helen Cruickshank (1886–1975): poet, author, founder member of the Saltire Society, Hon Sec of Scottish PEN, & linchpin of the 20th-century Scottish renaissance
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/helen-cruickshank-bide-the-storm-ye-canna-hinder/
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Broad in the beam? More broad in sympathy.
Stiff in the joints? More flexible in mind.
Deaf on the right? New voices from the Left
In politics and art more clearly sound…
—Helen Cruickshank, “On Being Eighty”
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https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/being-eighty/
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