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Leaf Unfurling

Peacemaker Newsletter (March 3rd, 2026)

Mar 03, 2026
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Niklas Flindt, creative commons
Instructions on Not Giving Up (an excerpt)

Patient, plodding, a green skin
growing over whatever winter did to us, a return
to the strange idea of continuous living despite
the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then,
I’ll take it, the tree seems to say, a new slick leaf
unfurling like a fist to an open palm, I’ll take it all.

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