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THE QUIET MACHINE
 BY ADA LIMON  

I’m learning so many different ways to be quiet. There’s how I stand
in the lawn, that’s one way. There’s also how I stand in the field
across from the street, that’s another way because I’m farther from
people and therefore more likely to be alone. There’s how I don’t
answer the phone, and how I sometimes like to lie down on the
floor of the kitchen and pretend I’m not home when people knock.
There’s daytime silent when I stare and nighttime silent when I
do things. There’s shower silent and bath silent and California silent
and Kentucky silent and car silent. And then there’s the silence that
comes back a million times bigger than me, sneaks into my bones
and wails and wails and wails until I can’t be quiet anymore.
That’s how this machine works.
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      • THE QUIET MACHINE
      • WHAT YOU MISSED THAT DAY YOU WERE ABSENT FROM THE FOURTH GRADE
      • JOURNEY POEM
      • I AM
      • THE HOUSE OF BELONGING
      • MANIFEST
      • THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS
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      • Silently a Flower Blooms
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