Try to praise the mutilated world, mangled with politicians and effigies, marvelous with its blueberries and boats petal-plucked amid our pouting.
Praise the serrated blade that cuts tomatoes and duct tape, praise clock towers, bee keepers and bricklayers, the smell of hyacinth and sea salt,
the locations memorializing our loss. Praise that loss, the lip-biting rawness singed from this choked singing. Then praise the train-tracks, trinkets,
creeping vines, even the plastic planets strung across the high school gymnasium. Praise the dance floor ablaze with star- spangled dresses; praise the sadnesses
scrunched into pocketbooks and cleavage, as later, you’ll try to praise middle-aged nostalgia, yellowed scrapbooks, photos, bundles of de-scented love notes. Praise
needles and their delivery, skin jarred with journey. Eggshells, antlers, and amulets, praise them, and campfires’ soot and flames that burn and warm. This life that turns and transforms.
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