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The Physics of Angels
Trish Crapo

I suspect the world remembers everything---
time and bones and words flung together
and me in it, suspecting. If we can believe
in photons---entities that possess movement
but not mass, and if the spirit, too
is made of light---then who am I to say
I haven't lived before---or you,
and thus this tenderness?
Who am I to doubt that grace
is elemental, like fire---or that souls
have no need of us, finally?







Trish Crapo; Walk Through Paradise Backwards; Slate Roof: A Publishing Collective 2004