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"Wick any life you can from the water streaming into the void..." What a line.

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Love it.

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Thank you, Doug!

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Good stuff, my friend. The photo was also difficult for me, likely why I didn’t comment sooner. 😬

But the poem is spot on as usual and I still live the series. Just don’t use this pic for the book cover!

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Love. 🙃

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I’m sorry the photo is so upsetting! I didn’t have great choices. . .

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The pictures can be the hardest part of the posts!

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Again, the ending of this poem! So good.

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Thank you, Ryan!

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Tania, I could not scroll away from the photo fast enough--that's my level of dental anxiety. And then, your poem, oh so tender and strangely worshipful.

I may need to take this to my next cleaning (not to mention the next *procedure.*)

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Oh Megan, I’m so sorry about your dental anxiety. I don’t struggle with it (though I am anxious about a million other things), but if I replace it with things that DO freak me out, well—I so get it.

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Same on that photo! Dental anxiety relatively new to me but quite bad now.

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Marvelous. Thank you

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Truth!

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