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Please pray for my good friend Kim, who unexpectedly lost her best friend last night. Amanda was sweet, consistent in her friendship, and contagiously upbeat. I know she was a friend who loved Kim well.

I'm too shocked to trust myself with other words.

what aroma finer than prayer

When I think
of the words that rush, unformed, inside this head;

when I hold
too tightly, a child at the Fair, to thoughts
precarious as red balloons edging upwards toward an October sky;

when the air pops and sizzles,
the Sturm und Drang of a thousand schoolchildren making room for dreams
of the air,
of the flight of each tiny helicopter,
of the shape of the hands I love,
of a doorstep beckoning,
of a coming home--

There is no question.
I am unfinished, in Love.