Heat hugs you, holds you close, too close,
your face in its armpits,
presses with dense weight,
as at the bottom of a hot ocean,
clamps you with huge crab claws.
What you think of is escape.
God says,
“Even 93 million miles away,
I am always this close.”
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Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Unfolding Light
www.unfoldinglight.net
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