Pan by Amanda Gorman

Pandemic, meaning all people. Pandemonium, meaning all demon. Pandora, meaning all-gifted. Pan, meaning god of nature. All people have meaning, are all- demon, all-gifted. It is in our divine nature. We now appreciate that Pandora's box was a jar left ajar, a pithos (to tell the mistranslation, then, is to risk being remembered by its fiction), meaning a storage container for grain, oil, wheat & even the dead. We all need places to lay down our grief. Where else to put it. That vessel held all plague, all pain & all hope. Don't panic. Instead, turn to a companion. What are we if not the curiosity to open the coffins we carry, who are we if not all the things we let loose.

— Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman (Page 71)