<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></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;">Psalm<div><br></div><div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the dream,</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">she was repeating</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the opening lines</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of the 23rd psalm,</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">over and over.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But King James's</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">language</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">is not her own.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She wanted to</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">keep the words</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as a prayer,</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as a mantra,</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as a call.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And so she</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">re-wrote it:</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spirit is my guide.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I need nothing else.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has me rest</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in the peace of</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the green world.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It leads me to</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">calm waters.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It restores my soul.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The dream was</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a healing dream.</div><div style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And so she kept it</div><div class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as a gift.</div></div><div class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Maya Spector</div></div></body></html>