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• Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.

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  Bed

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• why are we so monumentally slow?

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  Naomi Shihab Nye (1994). “Red Suitcase: Poems”, p.21, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• you will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf know you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your time. --The Art of Disappearing

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  Art, Feelings, Disappear

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1995). “Words under the words: selected poems”, The Eighth Mountain Press

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• Peter Conners stunning prose poems are packed with keen sensitivity, dreaminess, and wit. I love his time travels, the vibrant layering of image and detail. Try taking walks as you are reading this book- the dazzle of landscapes, inner and outer, feel replenished and rich. This is language and vision I want to come home to again and again.

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  Book, Reading, Home

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• I Still Have Everything You Gave Me It is dusty on the edges. It is slightly rotten. I guard it without thinking. I focus on it once a year when I shake it out in the wind. I do not ache. I would not trade.

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  Thinking, Years, Wind

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1998). “Fuel: Poems”, p.131, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• Teaching and writing are separate, but serve/feed one another in so many ways. Writing travels the road inward, teaching, the road out - helping OTHERS move inward - it is an honor to be with others in the spirit of writing and encouragement.

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  Encouragement, Moving, Teaching

  Interview with Rachel Barenblat, www.pifmagazine.com. August 1999.

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• The thousands small birds of January in their smooth soaring cloud finding the trees.

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  Clouds, Bird, Tree

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• I want to be someone making music/with my coming.

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  Want

  Naomi Shihab Nye (2015). “A Maze Me: Poems for Girls”, p.12, HarperCollins

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• I support all people on earth who have bodies like and unlike my body.

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  People, Support, Body

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1994). “Red Suitcase: Poems”, p.100, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.

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  Mother, Father, Piano

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• The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!

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  Writing, Shining, Pleasure

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• We all find ourselves involved in projects or activities that confound us-when or why did I say I would do this? What was I thinking? I needed a poem for myself that said-pause longer. Think again.

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  Thinking, Projects, Said

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• I'm writing mostly to thank you for living you eighty years and to tell you I love you and think of you often.

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  Love You, Writing, Thinking

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• Mystery: Everything felt better before you got there than when you actually got there. When you actually got there, you didn't quite have the energy to be there.

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  Energy, Mystery, Felt

  Naomi Shihab Nye (2009). “I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• For you who came so far; for you who held out, wearing a black scarf to signify grief; for you who believe true love can find you amidst this atlas of tears linking one town to its own memory of mortar, when it was still a dream to be built and people moved there, believing, and someone with sky and birds in his heart said this would be a good place for a park.

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  Dream, Memories, Grief

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• My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.

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  Brother, Revenge, Father

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• our limbs which had already traveled far beyond her world, carrying the click of distances in the smooth, untroubled soles of their shoes.

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  Distance, Shoes, World

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1994). “Red Suitcase: Poems”, p.24, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching warmth to warmth starting fires burning wishes into our skin we're hidden holding forbidden lights we're children whose fathers have never taught never touch but we're finding these new flames we smother at the sound of footsteps.

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  Children, Father, Fire

  Naomi Shihab Nye (2010). “Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• I can never see fashion models,
  lean angular cheeks, strutting hips
  and blooming hair, without thinking of
  the skulls at the catacombs in Lima, Peru.

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  Fashion, Thinking, Hair

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1994). “Red Suitcase: Poems”, p.93, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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