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Exchange - By Mara Lemanis

    Exchange Between what is desired and the one desiring stands a rate of exchange Between me and you what is exchanged between me and the life that stalks me what is my stasis what is my entropy What is the exchange rate between what the earth yie ›
In Trust - By Mara Lemanis read more
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In Trust - By Mara Lemanis

  In Trust I hold myself in trust to a hundred thousand generations; They laid a trust for me to host ›
Not an Island - By Mara Lemanis read more
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Not an Island - By Mara Lemanis

  Not an Island You bear a grudge and a torch It’s about freedom, you say, I pursue life I pursue l ›
To Love - By Mara Lemanis read more
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To Love - By Mara Lemanis

  To Love How do I sing a hymn to love without a Father no Great Mother to shed love on my torn tu ›
Hidden - By Mara Lemanis read more
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Hidden - By Mara Lemanis

  Hidden What is hidden lures me to rival showrooms goading me to buy facsimiles of gospel truth The ›
It is for You - By Mara Lemanis read more
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It is for You - By Mara Lemanis

It is for You It is for you I stand in silence a million sierras bursting through my skin you do not hear ›
Grace - By Mara Lemanis read more
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Grace - By Mara Lemanis

  Grace The grace of wisdom arcs over pain like an aurora over broken glass and from the splinters for ›
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Filament - By Mara Lemanis

  Filament When all the motors of your native coil refused ignition, stalled, and you quietly folded ›
Our Case - By Mara Lemanis read more
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Our Case - By Mara Lemanis

  Our Case What is the case, we asked. Has the world shown cause to make a case for us… Rocking day a ›
What We Will - By Mara Lemanis read more
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What We Will - By Mara Lemanis

  What We Will You said it would be all right; I said Look around you-- look and see what you won’ ›
Tomorrow - By Mara Lemanis read more
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Tomorrow - By Mara Lemanis

  Tomorrow Tomorrow maybe the sun won’t rise but lie quenched in ash; Tomorrow maybe the glaciers ›
Good Trouble Truth (Remembering John Lewis) read more
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Good Trouble Truth (Remembering John Lewis)

  Good Trouble Truth (Remembering John Lewis) Because you knew the truth when we broke ›
There is a Space - By Mara Lemanis read more
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There is a Space - By Mara Lemanis

  There is a Space There is a space between the first words planted like a giant Sequoia stiffening m ›
To Live Again - Poem by Mara Lemanis  read more
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To Live Again - Poem by Mara Lemanis 

  To Live Again The wind sent my voice to wail at the sun-- The sky is falling palisades ›
Lethal Things - By Mara Lemanis read more
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Lethal Things - By Mara Lemanis

    Lethal Things I wash my hands like a surgeon launching operations for defense; like an engin ›
Into the Light - By Mara Lemanis read more
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Into the Light - By Mara Lemanis

    Into the Light Dark it is a dark night when the Book of Life hides from me its manifold lig ›
Rumors of Rage - By Mara Lemanis read more
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Rumors of Rage - By Mara Lemanis

  Rumors of Rage There was rage and rumors of rage punching through the ozone through The Tree of ›