
First Draft - Best of 2021 Michael Kleber-Diggs
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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A Poem About Mortality, Gloria Mundi
i hold two truths kind of at the same time. There's aberbinical teaching, as i understand it, about mi pomping a note in each one of your pockets. B one says something like, i but a speck of dust. The other is something like, the world was created for me. It's that is my smallest gesture matters. Weigh more than i coun possibly understand. But the smile that we give to the weary traveller may change the course of their day in a profound way. I mon to keep writing poems. And i'm going to do that aware that i'm or at least seeing myself as as part of a very large group of people who are here
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