Friday, February 4, 2022

The Kingdom of Heaven is like

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a thousand hurtling tons
of iron, rubber, glass,
and biscuits with coffee to-go
stopped

to let a dude on skateboard
thread the stripes
across six lanes,
grinning.

Image by Susan Rouse.

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Writing pages of drafts, I lost the fun of the original incident. I'd felt joy at some kind of miracle -- like Elisha crossing the river on dry land -- but in all those pages, I couldn't define it. This morning, I put all the notes aside and wrote this haiku-like sentence on the back of an envelope. - WSS

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