the lottery, shirley jackson

Snowdrop.

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Theodore Roethke, from "Words for the Wind", The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]

some loser: humans are innately selfish creatures

my psych book:

— Frank Bidart, from “Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016; ‘The Third Hour of the Night’", published c. 2017.

I cannot do anything with a dancer--and I include myself--if the mind is not as conditioned, as limber, as obedient as the body. The body reveals what the mind is doing, where it is going, what it loves. The world reveals to you what you most want, and the conditioned mind heads toward what it most needs. Think and respond intelligently. If you entertain the notion of limitation or failure, it will rest comfortably in your company, and it will become a familiar location. I am not talking about the failure of risk: I am talking about the failure of imagination; the failure of faith. No one is looking at you; no one cares what you are doing. Get over this vain sense of observation and devote yourself to life and to others and to your work. You have no audience yet, but you have your soul and your fate, hovering overhead to see how you're going to husband both." ~ Martha Graham/Interview with James Grissom/1990

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Swan Lake

Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

starting a collection

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Devin Kelly, from “How to Drown”

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Mary Oliver, from “Hum Hum”, A Thousand Mornings