Becoming
I Will Cause You to Become
From the moment of his declaration that this is “the beginning of the good news”,Mark is off like a jack rabbit,like pressurized water suddenly set free,like a person running late in the winter,grabbing, on the way out the door,a bagel a scarf and a briefcase,sliding along the sidewalk, coat flapping, to the bus. Like a…
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Wildfire Rain
Rain is falling,thrumming, steady on the deck boards as I wake in the dark. Rain has arrived, like a nurse,in rooms of exhaustionplumping up the hard pillows of dry earth,tenderly touching the burnt boards of dreamsAnointing their fallen doorwaysreleasing the love they surrounded,to soakdeeplyinto the aching hearts of those who are bereft. It is like…
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