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for JR at the grove’s edge you meet them all, each one dripping hurt, steel eyed dusted and luminous moss trod and lichen lipped you go on, forgiving and seeking forgiveness. looking back, you see that none follow and alone you go liminal in the margin at the dipping point each river pool clears of whispering ghosts your trinkets, tokens, icons of memory are placed in offering as expiation each gesture a steady movement each step up the mountain, lighter still you are deep prayer moving steadily toward foresight,  toward reclamation, toward flight ascendant you are golden haired loved by the gods you are sweet-breathed as friend, father, brother, as joy-bringer you are seminal and unbound MCHALLIS © 2015
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Dec 22, 2015
Dec 22, 2015 at 8:54 PM UTC
Forest Prayer
for JR at the grove’s edge you meet them all, each one dripping hurt, steel eyed dusted and luminous moss trod and lichen lipped you go on, forgiving and seeking forgiveness. looking back, you see that none follow and alone you go liminal in the margin at the dipping point each river pool clears of whispering ghosts your trinkets, tokens, icons of memory are placed in offering as expiation each gesture a steady movement each step up the mountain, lighter still you are deep prayer moving steadily toward foresight,  toward reclamation, toward flight ascendant you are golden haired loved by the gods you are sweet-breathed as friend, father, brother, as joy-bringer you are seminal and unbound MCHALLIS © 2015
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Dec 22, 2015
Dec 22, 2015 at 8:54 PM UTC
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