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Eat the seed of blue and it grows in you.<\/span><\/p>\n

~Karine’s dream<\/span><\/p>\n

Am I awake or asleep?<\/p>\n

Unworthiness a salt upon my tongue,
\nI kneel<\/p>\n

as Blue draws near, a sphere of light
\nso tall I cannot see her face.
\nBut her shoulders stretch wide\u2014no wonder
\nthey call them wings.<\/p>\n

My words, blue swallows, dart across her deepening dress.<\/p>\n

Not\u2014What ocean do you carry on your hip?
\nWhat heaven do you hail from? What country,
\nsapphire, cerulean?<\/p>\n

But, Where does the moral world begin?<\/p>\n

Leaning over the earth in me, the birth of me,
\nshe answers space with time: not where but when inner and outer light are one\u2026<\/p>\n

My legs still pressed against the ground, my cheek upon her hem<\/p>\n

until the dawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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