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Parked Car Prayer

“Mama waits at the door with tears and a warning about spiking blood. She told me what was safe for the last twenty years.”

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a portal

“what if you began a practice / of trust?”

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“to feel I could wear my hips / like they belonged to this body, / what a crime.”

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“Death is present, but the essence remains”

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“A little bird waits with you on the dash… / willing to die alongside you”