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You know how it smells after it rains? That clean, greenish smell when rain lands on dry ground? That’s petrichor, from the Greek petra (stone) and ichor (the blood of Greek gods and goddesses). The term was coined by two Australian researchers in 1964.

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Of all the trouble kept her inside Every day
I see or hear
something
that more or less

kills me
with delight.
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