<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; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; line-height: 1.65;" class="">Make Believe</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; line-height: 1.65;" class="">As children, my cousin and I once<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">dug into the side of our mountain,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; line-height: 1.65;" class="">a terrible brown work.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">That morning we’d made the cold walk</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; line-height: 1.65;" class="">to the hospital and watched<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">his mother for a long time.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; line-height: 1.65;" class="">She was unchained from her machines,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">shrinking into ordinary.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; line-height: 1.65;" class="">It was our first death,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">and we looked at our small hands.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; line-height: 1.65;" class="">But no, my cousin insisted,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">these are not our hands,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; line-height: 1.65;" class="">they are bear hands.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">And we walked to our mountain,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; line-height: 1.65;" class="">shaped our cave:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">one meter, two meters, three.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; line-height: 1.65;" class="">We bears were making a home.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">We roared, and shook off our human bones,</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 25px; line-height: 1.65;" class="">until angels howled like dogs<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" class="">in the valley below.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- <span style="caret-color: rgb(85, 85, 85);" class="">Jacob Shores-Argüello</span></div></div></body></html>