Today's poem is by Nicole Callihan

glad
       

but everything wasn't always terrible i'd save
my dimes in stacks of ten to buy math workbooks
and sometimes the sky got so blue i could
feel my heart pounding in my throat to walk
along a river even if you have never walked
along another river is to know other rivers
to find a longing for something
is to long to press that shapelessness
into your palm under your tongue is to begin
to understand its contours in the snow
playing dead is to feel the fast flicker of being

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