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The cure for loneliness is solitude.
—Marianne Moore
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Words (Orr)

I always supposed
It was words
I was after—
Those
Shining fish
The poem's net gets.
But who knows?
Maybe it was
The sea
Itself
I was trying
To haul on deck.

Gregory Orr, from "Ode to Words"

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