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Today's poem is by Sara Lupita Olivares

Moment Where I Keep What I'd Wanted to Give
       

once they appear
I reach out to touch
the minnows
a loose hinge of me
opens and closes
normally

I halve my life
to see how
want balances
want lessening
the light's
threads



Copyright © 2017 Sara Lupita Olivares All rights reserved
from Field Things
dancing girl press
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission

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