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Poems + Prompts #13

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Abby Rasminsky
Jan 12, 2023
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Well, hello! And welcome to Poems + Prompts. I’m so happy you’re here to do a little reading and writing. (Yes, banner says People + Bodies; alas: technical issues.)

Today we are reading a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye. I love what a complicated take this poem has on the new year — pain and beauty, birth and death, joy and sadness, all of it coming together in this transitional moment.

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