Helena Bonham Carter Reads Danusha Laméris' Small Kindnesses | 365 Poems for Life by Allie Esiri 

read by a wonderful person in just the right intonation and tempo to give this poem it's true feeling

I could listen to this woman's voice forever!

Small Kindnesses By Danusha Laméris I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you” when someone sneezes, a leftover from the Bubonic plague. “Don’t die,” we are saying. And sometimes, when you spill lemons from your grocery bag, someone else will help you pick them up. Mostly, we don’t want to harm each other. We want to be handed our cup of coffee hot, and to say thank you to the person handing it. To smile at them and for them to smile back. For the waitress to call us honey when she sets down the bowl of clam chowder, and for the driver in the red pick-up truck to let us pass. We have so little of each other, now. So far from tribe and fire. Only these brief moments of exchange. What if they are the true dwelling of the holy, these fleeting temples we make together when we say, “Here, have my seat,” “Go ahead - you first,” “I like your hat.”

Have you ever considered recording yourself reading a whole book of poetry on RU-vid or to sell it? Or what if it existed a Netflix of poetry?! That would be marvelous and exciting to watch and listen

Helena is masterful at reading these poems I love her.

Wonderful reading!!! So far from tribe and fire...well, yes. There is so much truth in that poem

i love her

Beautifully read

I want her to read my eulogy. 🥰

Helena, I like how you read this poem.

So wonderful!

Beautiful ❤

Lovely!

Me encanta escucharte 😊

I love this

wooow very wonderful poem 🔥🔥🔥🔥

THANKS! Love her, love the poem, and most of all, l love you. I hear you are taking good care of your boy. Wishing you great success with this special treatment! To that end, I'm sending powerful juju through the quantum field 🎉❤🙏Namaste 😊

when i first heard morgan scorpion doing her readings, i thought that she was helena bonham carter. it was a somewhat strange experience.