I Don\u2019t Know What to Pray
\nby
\nRadiance Angelina Petro<\/p>\n
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A house near All Hallows Church has Tibetan prayer flags
\nstrung from a maple to the side of the front porch. The wind<\/p>\n
examines them carefully, turning each one over, asking
\nquestions now and again, and after awhile,<\/p>\n
the questions begin to fall, like whirlybirds. A few fall within
\nreach, and I catch them as they do, and examine them carefully,<\/p>\n
turning each one over, and wonder if any of the seeds share the same questions,
\nsince many of them fall while kissing. And what of my own questions?<\/p>\n
Have my eyes ever blazed? When was the last time
\nI ladled soup for someone? Have I ever had to say to myself:<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t move.\u201d When was the last time I looked through a kaleidoscope?
\nIs kindness ever wrong? And what would happen (if anything)<\/p>\n
if I sat beneath a banyan tree? I pause, fireflies rising in the graveyard
\nnext to the church, and then, I fling the seeds back into the air,<\/p>\n
and watch them spin in the late evening sky, wondering
\nif the prayers will be answered, even though I myself, don\u2019t know what to pray.<\/p>\n
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