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56 Retreat Postcards I Mass of granite question mark fear trapped in your suitcase r e l e a s e d forgotten with each embrace repeated invocation Welcome II Beloved: Times are wonderfilled . You here my wish to overflow them. III The ghosts are friendly here helpful novices urging joy depth prayer. Courage. They fly in with a gust at night to peer over your shoulder. Messy haints: try to catch them they rearrange your pages as they flee. 57 IV Mother: I cried out for you, for God, begged forgiveness staring at the stars, was up all night suspended in an envelope slipped from dusk to dawn. The feel of being cupped in loving hands, sound of fifty heartbeats echoing— How can I go on? Prepare: Visions are next V Block of foot-thick stone and prayer light above the river. Angels hovering wings thin as pure blank pages. ...

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