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Goodnight

by John Ciardi

John Ciardi

An oyster that went to bed x-million years ago,
tucked itself into a sand-bottom, yawned (so to speak),
and woke a mile high in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado.

If I am not here for breakfast, geologize at will.




Quotes of the Day

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
• Ralph Waldo Emerson


Poems of the Day
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