Issue #113

Years ago I perched
At lip of the Grand Canyon
Unable to grasp

Distance or scale, as
If where I stood, what I saw
Were as connected

As voice and narwhals.
Full of wonder, full of fear.
The doctor’s note says:

Likely permanent
Injury to the neural
Acoustic structure.

And I’m at the lip
Of the canyon again - fear
And wonder make for

A kind of reverence.
To have been the person to
See it for first time -

Bowl full of nothing
But the blessing it is, an
Open palm to God.

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