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Rated: E · Poetry · Religious · #1341385
just something that occurred to me
hands move like birds;
pick lucid threads circling.
our soft-eyed Messiah

“in this place, outside religion
we encounter a pear; a paring knife
and see God, or not
as we please.

“here, as children, we outran magic
for broader fairy tales. . . “
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