Poetry by Robin Tolochko
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hyphen
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reckoning
Jimmy Carter died yesterday.
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times like these
Tell me, please, what do you mean by "times like these"?
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Thanksgiving
the lightness and the burden of freedom
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anavah
exactly the amount of space appropriate to take up in the universe
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The Garden of Giving Up
“Never, ever, ever give up”
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the moon / attuned
to get quiet for long enough
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the eight C's
you held space for me
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goal intake
“I want to live in the present moment”
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breath
taking deep breaths when I feel dysregulated
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emotional flashback
even when it was hard
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the end of the Ice Age
a great rupture that recarved the landscape
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Quant, Part 1
I question the religion of science
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Quant, Part 2
Not a single one fit the rigid mold
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transplanting
Show, don't tell
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Growth Is Not Linear
the geologic time horizon of a life
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the Work
a visceral glimpse of us in some unknown future
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the small dig
I evolved to get satisfaction from digging in the dirt
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impatient
past the pain, the grief, the hurt; past the learning as a verb
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play
the Earth beckons me back
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Cumberland
kaleidoscope of sky and trees
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light as a feather
is it the lightness of the burden on the robin’s back?
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the answer
“Hurry up, you know the answer"
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it would be enough
Dayenu.
