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The doors keep opening, <\/span>
\nAnd though my head is still heavy for the pillow,<\/span>
\nI accept it as a slamming omen,<\/span>
\nTo at least write this sentence,<\/span>
\nAbout opening, slamming, sentence-rising, omens.<\/span><\/p>\n

It came to me in the night.<\/span>
\nSo it must be true.<\/span>
\nA story not yet told in the way it wants to be,<\/span>
\nBut reaching out for me,<\/span>
\nWith an obscured and groping hand.<\/span><\/p>\n

If I write a thousand pages in four sentences, can I please sleep?<\/span><\/p>\n

My first pregnancy gave me my first child.<\/span>
\nMy second pregnancy put a makeshift headstone under the lilac in the corner garden. <\/span>
\nMy third pregnancy pulled my soul up my throat in dry-heaved grief.<\/span>
\nMy fourth pregnancy seared my wounds with the deliverance of my second child.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sleep is fertile ground for stringing worlds and words. <\/span>
\nWith this lazy rational,<\/span>
\nI crawl greedily back into bed. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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