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Is prayer<br \/>\na kind of blind reaching\u2014<\/p>\n<p>toward a book on a shelf, an unlit room<br \/>\nwhere a child is sleeping\u2014<br \/>\nbeyond the circumference of self?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is this sudden reaching? In bone-white landscape, my gloved fingers radiate a signal pain, crying out in warning, that even the boughs of the mighty oaks can crack in the death-chill, and call down its wild thunder &amp; cleft the roof, clattering our skulls, trying to wake us. Precarious prating about the nothing. 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