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Desire is a tricky thing, the boiling of the body's wants... I've been the one who has craved and craved until I could not see beyond my own greed. There's a whole nation of us. To forgive myself, I point to the earth as witness. ... tell me, what it is to be quiet, and yet still breathing... ...to honor this: the length of days. To speak to the core that creates and swallows, to speak not always to what's shouting, but to what's underneath asking for nothing...
~ Ada Limon from "Notes on the Below" in THE CARRYING