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Thought for Today - Renewal

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Vera Pavlova

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dropped
and falling
from such
heights
for so
long
that
maybe
I will have
enough time
to learn
flying

— Vera Pavlova, poet


Excerpt from If There Is Something to Desire. Translation copyright © 2010 Steven Seymour. Excerpted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

In honor of National Poetry Month, Knopf will give you a free poem every day

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