Sunday, April 18, 2010

St. Marie of the Incarnation


before I was born,

several other children


had seen the light of day

but all died in their infancy.


mother’s heart leapt

into a cruel famine.


I tumbled off of a horse,

broke bones I didn’t know

existed.


The white splinters turned

to paper, folded themselves

into cranes


and flew.

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