Lucie Brock-Broido on people saying "It is what it is": "Every time I hear a person say this phrase (especially if they mean it), I’m stunned anew. For me, I don’t think I’ve ever simply accepted that anything — is what it is. I’ve no such calm to speak of."
@HoweMariehowe I’m working on a mural for a Poetry in Paint festival, and I’ve chosen your poem, The Meadow. I’d like to use the words of the poem written on the mural so you can read it when you’re close up but not when far away. Would you give me permission to do that Marie?
Little bird little unfeathered thing embedded bird without song without mate or offspring muted into a symbol on the screen so we might speak and speak and speak and speak