I would not think to touch the sky with two arms
[Sappho, Fragment 52, Anne Carson, trans.]
grabbing something of it to gather in for wish-making,
knowing enough of prayer to doubt the silence or the answer,
settle instead for the habitual, bedside beads, a piety of memory:
if I were the one to call down miracles would there be such emptiness?
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