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Visual Storytelling
Ode to the West
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Every morning
the world
is created.
Under the orange
sticks of the sun
the heaped
ashes of the night
turn into leaves again
excerpt from "Morning Poem" by Mary Oliver
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Every morning
the world
is created.
Under the orange
sticks of the sun
the heaped
ashes of the night
turn into leaves again
excerpt from "Morning Poem" by Mary Oliver