July 2010
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Three Poems by Czeslaw Milosz →
Polish poet Czesław Miłosz, born June 30, 1917.
June 2010
214 posts
sorrows
by Lucille Clifton, born June 27, 1936
who would believe them winged
who would believe they could be
beautiful who would believe
they could fall so in love with mortals
that they would attach themselves
as scars attach and ride the skin
sometimes we hear them in our dreams
rattling their skulls clicking their bony fingers
envying our crackling hair
our spice...
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converting temperature to kelvins
°C = (°F - 32) * 5 / 9
°F = (°C * 1.8) + 32
K = °C + 273.15
°C = K - 273.15
Zero Kelvins is absolute zero (−273.15 degrees Celsius). -40° Celsius and -40° Fahrenheit are equal.
June 26, 2010 partial lunar eclipse →
I don’t believe in omens or fear Forebodings. I flee from neither slander Nor from poison. Death does not exist. Everyone’s immortal. Everything is too. No point in fearing death at seventeen, Or seventy. There’s only here and now, and light; Neither death, nor darkness, exists. We’re all already on the seashore; I’m one of those...
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