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Fearful Wonders
I am fearfully made in this garden of wonders where sun dapples down upon bench and bed, upon creeper and crocus, with shoots lancing quickly up, defiant through dampened earth.
Evangelism
I’ve come all the way here to talk to you. I have come from birth and teething rings and standing up and falling down and stealing toys and riding bikes and building forts and telling lies and driving cars and texting friends and rebirth all the way to you in an empty McDonald’s corner booth around nine in the evening.
Silent Aches
I have always been able to describe the ache—the ache in my shoulders from sitting too long, the ache in my eyes from crying too much, the ache in my heart from missing you, the ache in my hands from holding the cry of my knotted heart.
Every Star in Between
My soul weeps, and its tears glisten in the fading sunlight; emotions run out into the open, empty air of aloneness. On my skin, they trim their graves with salt and leave the ground beneath them thirsty and cracked so that the light might reach my deepest places.
Edmund’s Sunset
Unbroken mists upon the water veil the island’s silhouette; just a shadowland, it caught her by its magic, in its clutch, with just a touch of violet amid an iridescent gray.
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