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Imagine Such a World
by Linda Millemann
Imagine for a moment
a world afloat
tipped and whirling
in a measureless, unending sea of stars
spinning every night
right back into day.
Imagine a world where
water falls
just falls
out of the sky.
Imagine clouds,
a visible invisibility,
that hold the weight of rain,
about to loosen from their feathered folds,
perfect in its cycle of return and rise,
filling the earth's open, grateful mouth.
A world that offers
its soft arm of sleep
to follow every bursting.
A world that beats a steady rhythm
of departure and return,
of new that follows old.
A world that can conceive
of both a winter and a spring.
a world so longing to be heard
it blooms a meadow full of birds,
so longing for the dance
it sends a pulse
of river over rock,
of wind between the trees,
and sways to its own joy
in rippled grassy fields.
Imagine such a world
that offers all of this
and even more,
a place, a time
for each of us to bow, to burn
a blessed fire of ourselves.
Oh, world, almost too much to be imagined
only asking to be met
with our most keenly joyous vow of
yes.
No more
No less
Imagine such a world.
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