{"id":575,"date":"2012-08-24T08:19:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T16:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplecommunion.com\/?p=575"},"modified":"2013-05-22T19:26:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T03:26:22","slug":"dangling-jellyfish-headlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.simplecommunion.com\/2012\/08\/dangling-jellyfish-headlights\/","title":{"rendered":"When I was 20, I read a book"},"content":{"rendered":"
When I was 20, I read a book about chakras
\nand imagined them as different car headlights
\nhung inside my body
\ntheir electrical connections dangling,
\nlike jellyfish, out my back, where no one
\ncould see.<\/p>\n
I had my arms around him, my headlights
\nwired up to his, everything bright.
\nI was sweating apprehension as I whispered,
\n“What do you think of our future together?”<\/p>\n
I never believed in magic words:
\nAbracadabra didn’t make the rabbit appear,
\nom manepadme OM never created light,
\nif Arabic and Hebrew were holy languages,
\nhow were such terrible things done in them?<\/p>\n
But those words were alchemy, running
\nbackwards as I suspect alchemy always does
\nthe error of trying to change spirit with matter:
\ntransforming burning light
\ninto an evening’s mauve sadness
\nin a tight, brightly decorated room
\nfor one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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