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The Sealey Challenge Day 17

Richard Jeffrey Newman

by Richard Jeffrey Newman

The Sealey Challenge Day 17

The Sealey Challenge Day 17

To love
the body to love its work
to love the hand that praises both to praise
the body and to love the soul
that dreams and wakes us back alive
against the slothful odds...

—from “Sweeping the Garden,” from Soie Sauvage, Olga Broumas’ second book

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