i am no good

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After Mary Oliver


i don’t want the world to call to me 

to see the wild geese 

in all their liberty 


meanwhile every mountain 

every pebble 

every dogwood, every magnolia 

screams his name. 


“meanwhile the world goes on”

but i don’t. i can’t. 

how can i? 


grief envelopes me. 

extinguishes me. 


i am no good. 


24 feb 2026, yl

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