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Pockets of Possibility, By Jennifer Angelina Petro
Pockets of Possibility
By
Jennifer Angelina Petro
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Moment, like
Sunrise into day,
Like green shoots
From dark husks,
Like yeast in bread,
Like movement
Through the dancer’s waking limbs,
Like motion in the resting
Curtains, like momentum
Into a good idea, like breath
From your whole body,
Like an octopus unfurling
From its dark lair.
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Moment, like
A child’s fingers opening
Into your hand–
To guide you to touch the kitten’s fur,
To feel the lips of the goat nibbling feed,
To feel the weight of the fork
As it lifts from the cake,
To find the stone that acts like
A talisman in the pockets
Of possibility.
Prayers, Soaring
Prayers, Soaring
For Eden
by
Joseph Anthony Petro
In the center
Of the field
The child,
Hands together,
Prayed the circle
Be one, bowed
Hoping it was so,
Turned, saw spirit
Everywhere;
And the flowers
And clouds, the passing
Heron, the nearby river
Sung the hope
Into sweet and fierce truth—
And then—hands open,
Sky embraced, the child,
Realized and full
Of grace, smiled, like
The sun, like the moon,
Like a constellation
Of a million stars,
In a universe made
Of pure adventure.
Something Like Truth, by Jennifer Angelina Petro
A child can lift her arms, open them, like this,
and hold the sky without feeling cheated or disappointed.
There are no fancy metaphysics involved. It simply is that way.
Arms open. The sky comes in.