Joseph
it can't be
"Will you sacrifice?"
This isn't real. I'd never let it happen.
I sit cross-legged in a meadow of four colors and all around me blue. Grass grows from my thighs and
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tinge to the air—purple-
scented, fennel fronds shaking green as parties
filigreed
as when a child I used to draw
mermaid and merman's hair.
A storm blowing
through, wind in the tunnel of the throat
and rushing
from the mouth. A story caw-cawing from the branches.
The pines wave back and forth, thrash
the sky. Soft spruce needle whisks, egg-froth of clouds.
To be of the storm, to enter it.
To be entirely air.