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“One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice –”

Mary Oliver’s poem “The Journey” continues, “though the whole house / began to tremble / and you felt the old tug / at your ankles . . .” The journey she describes didn’t stop, even though it was “a wild … Continue reading

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