<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">God Breaks the Heart Again and Again Until It Stays Open</div><div class=""> <i style="font-size: 14px;" class="">after a quote from Sufi Inayat Khan</i></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But what if my heart is a 7-Eleven after its third daytime robbery in a week?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What if my heart is a piñata trashed to tissue and peppermint shrapnel? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What if my heart is a peeled mango bearing an emerald housefly? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What if my heart is an air conditioner weeping a rosary of rusty tears? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What if my heart is Sebastião Salgado’s sinkhole swallowing another child? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What if my heart is Death Valley in wide-view Cinemascope? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What if my heart is a chupacabrón chanting, Build the wall? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What if my heart is the creepy uncle’s yawning zipper? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What if my heart is a Pentecostal babbling a river of tongues? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What if my heart is the cross-eyed Jesus bought at the Poteet flea market? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What if my heart is El Paso, Texas, in bed with the corpse of Ciudad Juárez?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What if my heart is unhinged from the weight of its lice-ridden wings? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What then for an encore, oh my soul, when you have blessed me a </div><div class=""> hundredfold?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Sandra Cisneros</div></div></body></html>