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The Luxury of Fearlessness
by Lara Dolphin

If your Nerve, deny you—Go above your Nerve
—Emily Dickinson

The Earth cannot wait until I am unafraid,
until I am ready to speak.

I was never meant to last.

I will sing the songs of the forests,
the wilderness and the seas.
I will turn poems into praxis.

How can we make the world whole…

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