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Aug 29 / ilse

At the very least, I slept in today.

Catherine's shoe in Iowa City, circa 2004

From “fifteen balls of feathers” by Ada Limón:

I wanted to be a hummingbird.
It made sense to long for rapid wings and the ability to hover always—

to be Huitzilopochtli taming my snakes.

Sometimes though, the thought exhausts me and
I want to be a slow horse, a tennis shoe.

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