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i am a fireball, learning how
to be a lake. both are me;
a lake of fire walking across
itself to kiss your forehead
my dear, take my hand
walk with me where Mother
Nature has bitten off
the asphalt road here
we can be generous with
our whole hearts like the
Sun, the fireball i offer you
from within my very chest.
This poem was inspired by Enlightened Society Assembly held in August 2016 at Karmê Chöling.
Paul Singleton III is the author/illustrator of ‘Sometimes Mama’s Just Like That’, ‘When My Hero Left’, and ‘free movements’. His work has appeared in Maple Leaf Rag anthology, in NPR’s On Being blog, and in Duke University’s Invisible Bear anthology.
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