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Something exquisitely sweet and tender, like a hummingbird’s tongue.

Some kernel of something, a breath.

If I hold still enough, I can feel it.

If I move slowly enough, I can hold it in both hands, gingerly, like an offering.

I have to be quiet to be with it – move too fast and it feels like I may lose it, like holding a tiny feather without gripping it.

But I know it’s also lodged in there, in here, like the tree I saw that had grown through and around a fence. “I’m not going anywhere”.

This delicate, solid, holy thing.

That part that wants to cry out and weep with the world these days and drop onto the sidewalk, exhausted.

But also to feel the gentle warmth of the sun on my skin once I’m down there.

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