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“to live in this world

you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go”
― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One

tags: excerpt-from-in-blackwater-woods, poem, poetry

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Mock Printz 2027 — 1175 members — last activity Mar 18, 2026 02:58PM
Reading the best of the best in Young Adult literature published in the previous year. Our goal is to find the book the American Library Association's ...more

Sapphic Bookclub!! — 2342 members — last activity Mar 03, 2026 10:13AM
Welcome to any and all WLW / NBLW (lesbians, bisexuals, pansexuals). This is a no pressure book club. If at any point you fall behind, or decide not ...more