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Friday, September 24, 2021

Maggie Nelson

 32. When I say “hope,” I don’t mean hope for anything in particular. I guess I just mean thinking that it’s worth it to keep one’s eyes open. “What are all those / fuzzy-looking things out there? /Trees? Well, I’m tired / of them”: the last words of William Carlos Williams’s English grandmother.


---Maggie. Nelson (from Bluets)

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