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Feb 2020
a box full of darkness
    ~ Mary Oliver

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness

It took me years to understand
that this too,  was a gift
The Uses of Sorrow,  In my sleep I dreamed this poem,   Mary Oliver ©
sobroquet
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sobroquet  70/M/Maui, Hawaii
(70/M/Maui, Hawaii)   
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       Fawn, Bugs Spencer, jordan, Mark S, --- and 10 others
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