# The World We Are

Poems--first drafts, super-old ones, and everything in-between.

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## [While you are away](https://margaretannsilver.substack.com/p/while-you-are-away)

_2026-08-18 · Margaret Ann Silver_

(You guys, I can’t think of a subtitle today. I guess that’s the subtitle.)

## [Back to blackberry picking](https://margaretannsilver.substack.com/p/back-to-blackberry-picking)

_2026-08-10 · Margaret Ann Silver_

This is a--corrupted pantoum? An aberrant pantoum? A pantoum whose time has come? Nobody really knows.

## [Three orange things](https://margaretannsilver.substack.com/p/three-orange-things)

_2026-08-07 · Margaret Ann Silver_

Well, technically, two orange animals and a fire-orange sun.

## [This is how I imagine you leaving](https://margaretannsilver.substack.com/p/this-is-how-i-imagine-you-leaving-008)

_2026-08-01 · Margaret Ann Silver_

A repost/revision for today: an abecedarian for my oldest daughter. (I didn't realize how much poetic license I took with the word "drone" until now. Oops! But I can't think of another "d" bee word.)

## [First aid for birds](https://margaretannsilver.substack.com/p/first-aid-for-birds-695)

_2026-07-26 · Margaret Ann Silver_

A repost/revision for today. Until recently, I had no idea that ordinary people went around saving pigeons from digital amputation. How wonderful is that?

## [Freckle inspection](https://margaretannsilver.substack.com/p/freckle-inspection)

_2026-07-22 · Margaret Ann Silver_

For small summer joys.

## [Good bad good bad good bad](https://margaretannsilver.substack.com/p/good-bad-good-bad-good-bad)

_2026-07-21 · Margaret Ann Silver_

This poem started with a prompt by Lisa Jensen over at Wild Ground (as many of my poems do).

## [After life](https://margaretannsilver.substack.com/p/after-life-c4e)

_2026-07-19 · Margaret Ann Silver_

A repost/revision for today. I feel like I wrote this poem just a few months ago, but it's already been over a year. Time is so weird.

## [Another hometown poem](https://margaretannsilver.substack.com/p/another-hometown-poem)

_2026-07-14 · Margaret Ann Silver_

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## [Hometown poem](https://margaretannsilver.substack.com/p/hometown-poem)

_2026-07-12 · Margaret Ann Silver_

"You can't go home again" apparently includes revising certain poems. Is it because they were written in a different time and might need to stay preserved there—fossils of a former life?