<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size: large;">terminal</span><font size="4"> </font><br><br><i>Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. </i>—Annie Dillard<br><br><font size="4">I’m leaving— </font><br><font size="4">leaving</font><br><font size="4">the instant I arrive</font><br><font size="4">you are, too</font><br><font size="4">that’s the deal </font><br><br><font size="4">we get magnolias</font><br><font size="4">in flamboyant bloom</font><br><font size="4">love so strong</font><br><font size="4">it flays us wide</font><br><br><font size="4">we get trouble</font><br><font size="4">and headache</font><br><font size="4">puzzles to solve</font><br><font size="4">conflict and famine</font><br><font size="4">the breadth of it all</font><br><br><font size="4">yet also light</font><br><font size="4">luminous ground</font><br><font size="4">radiating ineffable </font><br><font size="4">pulsing from the core</font><br><font size="4">grab my hand</font><br><font size="4">let’s stay for the ride</font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-style: italic; white-space: pre;"> </span>- Amrita Skye Blaine</font></div></div></body></html>