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This is so beautiful! This moment is captured and amplified and makes me search my memory for similar moments of my own. Just perfect. It has that "shimmering around the edges" quality in spades. Thanks so much for sharing this. It was exactly what I needed.

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Thank you, Tara! I'm so happy this connected with you. The ability to capture a hard-to-define moment is something I admire in your poetry (I'm thinking specifically of "Dinner for One"), so I really appreciate your comment.

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This is beautiful. The last stanza is so powerful and perfectly captures the expansive feeling of a beginning

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Thank you, Daniela! I’m so happy this connected with you.

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"And since it seemed as though

anything at all could happen

in the oncoming years,

it felt, just then,

as if everything would." That got me in my gut. ❤

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I'm happy this connected with you, Jocelyn. Thank you for commenting!

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Wonderful! I love using poems to convey little human experiences like that. Glad to be here.

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Thank you, Mike! I'm glad you're here, too. :)

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This is astonishingly, simplistically beautiful and gave me all the feels. Love it.

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Thank you so much, Jon! I really appreciate the comment, and I'm happy this poem connected with you.

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