Nov 22, 2016
...with her hand she still presses so tenaciously her little heart full of unlived tenderness
Anna Kamienska, from Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamienska; “Thirteen-Year-Old”
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...with her hand she still presses so tenaciously her little heart full of unlived tenderness
Anna Kamienska, from Astonishments: Selected Poems of Anna Kamienska; “Thirteen-Year-Old”
This girl silenced the world for six minutes, made my throat thick with tears and managed to make my anger boil and sadness expand.
Here's hoping these representatives of our humanity listen to her, since they won't listen to the rest of us.