Cough that caves my chest, rounds my shoulders, my attention has been inward for days,
Continue Reading »Life richer the smaller I live it, the less effort to dominate,
win, understand. Better to be the size of orange ladybugs
consummating, the bottom one still, the top one shimmying,
vibrating, wriggling before releasing on that vine, tiny white
flowers blooming, unphased I did not know their name.
Smaller than the me and you, the I and Thou weave eternally
connected moments, the larger story’s ending unknowable,
those who pass will unlikely know our name, and this –
one life fading into the next, making way for those on a vine
not yet budded, tiny releases of unrestrained love –
this is where greatness and glory reside.
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I seek a larger congregation, ceiling taller than pines
the house of the Lord, you might think, of eagles
and the cascading fall spraying snow-melted mist
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Vanishing coin, hare pulled by its ears from a hat,
the lovely assistant who is disappeared, sawed
in half, guillotined, her squeals prelude to applause
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– For Joe José Raúl V
I rechristened myself. A name I failed to use, known only by one man: tall with a large
unbroken heart, deep sonorous voice, a new third passport, a can’t-find-his-home
wanderer, he comes and goes, visits familia, returns to his rechristened country,
explores. He uses all his names. He uses the one I chose. This, calling us by the name
we request, the richest gift, making us visible, oxygenated, we take the shape
we were meant to. He holds space for the person I’d envisioned, who has her own
dictionary, playlists, passwords and logins, has never introduced herself to anyone else.
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