I’ve been moving a little to the music while I worked …and then I realize I am actually dancing. It feels wonderful, though I can feel how stiff my muscles are, how rigidly I’ve been holding myself… Mostly I’ve been moving cautiously, numbly, steeled because I know, at any moment, I may be ambushed by overwhelming grief. You never know when it’s coming, the word or gesture or bit of memory that dissolved you entirely… It happens every day at first, then not for a day or two, then there’s a week when grief washes in every morning, every afternoon. Mark Doty
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  1. Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.
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