A Story About Ashes

In the end no insight grand & electric

gathered me to safety, just two feet against

the ground & the walking they together made

 

into an away from my years thirsted & furred,

a forest’s unwavering insistence that it be seen

both as a forest & as its trees & at the same time,

 

the way the saints say God sees us in our multitudes,

our silvered metropolises, & at the same time

the spinning center of wishes we call the soul.…

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