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"Care"
Sacred Intentions Book
How it sits all day in my hand
How it turns over and aches, how it
Smoothes its back like the oak and the cypress
How it turns its neck upward
Vulnerable and long
How it reaches, curves and arches its back
How it lifts its wings and begs for mourning
How it batters its history
How it loves its forward motion
How it waves goodbye to
The ribcage enclosure
How it stays positively delighted
Rolling in the rain while the lightening cracks oceans of light
Over long grass, and thrashing maples
Dancing dancing
Lipping up rain with the wild horses
Chanting songs the long lush way in the grass
Guess what loving a life is
Guess what loving lightening is
So you hold it like irrepressible ivy
And surrender to the variegated light of the sky within that has been chosen for you and you die or keep on going
And then you dance