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19/30
Morning Prayer The sun begins its path across the window. I lie heavy and full after sleep, a sack of flour, thanking the lingering cobwebs of dreams for their mysterious metaphor. There was a sadness falling asleep that I cannot remember now; my mind, a machine defaulting to useless, repetitive motion, wakes as a soft,…
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18/30
Gardener’s Instruction Manual for Self-Change It will not happen all at once. That is simply not the way of things. There are millions of tiny choices collapsed into your new self, seeds scattered by the winds’ hands. First, choose your location. Find places of beauty, the homes to generously growing beings and gentle weather. Start…
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17/30
For My Friend On His Birthday A decade later, I am still making your scrapbook illustrated by high school memories and the stories you tell me. I flip through, watch you turn from a smoking rocket schoolboy to a buzzed head and brittle armor to a corduroy garden feminist to a color-outside-the-lines academic to international…
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16/30
The Phoenix Lab The tried electrodes, but they were incinerated along with the feathers. The MRI and x-ray attempts proved useless as well – if the bird wasn’t moving, it was starting to smoke, and had to be removed. They swabbed and poked in between combustions – a tricky task, since there was no rhythm…
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15/30
The Spiritual Midwife “I am just a baby,” she says to me. “I am crawling. There is so much I know, but I have to learn it again in this life.” Her voice a pure river over me as she sings, shaking a rattle over my belly. “I’m just going to do what feels right.…