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“We are all trying to change what we fear into something beautiful.”

— Kelli Russell Agodon, from “Hunger,” published in Poem-a-Day

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“We are all trying to change what we fear into something beautiful.”

— Kelli Russell Agodon, from “Hunger,” published in Poem-a-Day

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Thanks for all who commented, shared, and connected with this poem. It means so much. #poetry #poem #poemoftheday #heartbreak #pain #life #poetrycommunity #newpoem

“Night thinks it’s crying again and I keep listening to a song about autumn where an apple tastes like longing and every leaf in the maple tree tries to explain loss through a series of colors—hectic orange, indifferent red, a kind of gold that speaks directly to god or moonbeams and in the dark as I drive down wet roadways watching for deer, the only thing I can see clearly are the yellow leaves christening my windshield and I think how we are taught not to love too many, too much, the night, the darkness, and I think I am crying but it is only rain.”

— Kelli Russell Agodon, “Night thinks it’s crying again,” Southern Indiana Review (Spring 2021)

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Night thinks it's crying again and I keep listening to a song about autumn where an apple tastes like longing and every leaf in the maple tree tries to explain loss through a series of colors—hectic orange, indifferent red, a kind of gold that speaks directly to god or moonbeams and in the dark as I drive down wet roadways watching for deer, the only thing I can see clearly are the yellow leaves christening my windshield and I think how we are taught not to love too many, too much, the night, the darkness, and I think I am crying but it is only rain.

Kelli Russell Agodon, “Night thinks it’s crying again,” Southern Indiana Review (Spring 2021)

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