Ordinary Plots: Meditations on Poems + Verse

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Ellie Black's "Be Spiritual No More Mechanical"
Thoughts on making fun.
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Seamus Heaney's "Casualty"
Thoughts on running.
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Gwendolyn Brooks's "To the Young Who Want to Die"
Thoughts on the certain and uncertain.
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March 2024

Peter Cole's "Can You Hear Me?"
Thoughts on trying.
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Chet'la Sebree's "Oceans could separate us, but no"
Thoughts on touch and constellations.
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha's "Upon Arrival"
Thoughts on solidarity as an enlargement of our imaginative capability.
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Christina Olson's "The Thing You Fear Is Not the Thing That Kills You"
Thoughts on the paradox of it all.
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Paige Lewis's "On the Train, a Man Snatches My Book"
Thoughts on the scale of who we are.
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February 2024

Carrie Fountain's "The Life"
Thoughts on this, too, being a life.
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Adélia Prado's "Lamentation to Move Jonathan" (translated by Jessica Goudeau)
Thoughts on more-ness and all-ness.
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R. A. Villanueva's "This dark is the same dark as when you close"
Thoughts on love.
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Loisa Fenichell's "Act III, Scene III"
Thoughts on stillness.
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