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December 29, 2010 at 12:20pm
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Today’s poem at Writer’s Almanac, the last stanza of which is the best collection of words* I’ve read in a while:

When winter is over
And all your unimaginable promises
Burst into song on death’s bare branches.

* I say “collection,” because without the rest of the poem, the words have very little context for meaning — which makes them even better, now that I think about it.

Notes

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