<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></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; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">an oblation</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">hanging by a thread</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">a silk purse from a pig's ear</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">the sage counts money</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">failing to ask the question</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">brings the worlds to its scared knees</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">the sacred shattered</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">by deep cuts to the fabric </div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">of natural rhythms </div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">even the cosmos tainted</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">by musk's string of jewels</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">with a nimble thrust</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">I cast my net toward unknown</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">realms of potency</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">longing for confluence</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">of future-past in our now</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">spark the surrender</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">of devoted acceptance <br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">where ego passes </div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">itself into this moment </div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">where trust is an active force</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Lorene Allen</div></div></body></html>