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harlan epstein

artist | theater-maker | poet | dork

Because cut flowers
deserve to be beautiful
one last spring morning.

etruscan vase with flowers
odilon redon, 1900-10

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;

so many things seem filled with the intent

to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster

of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.

The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:

places, and names, and where it was you meant

to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or

next-to-last, of three loved houses went.

The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,

some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.

I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.

—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture

I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident

the art of losing’s not too hard to master

though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

one art – elizabeth bishop

if you want to reach me,
leave me alone

- sheryl crow (a change would do you good

[just kidding i'm very lonely please write to me]

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etruscan vase with flowersodilon redon, 1900-10

if you want to reach me,leave me alone

- sheryl crow (a change would do you good

[just kidding i'm very lonely please write to me]

etruscan vase with flowers
odilon redon, 1900-10

if you want to reach me,
leave me alone