<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 dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="ydpd4abf91byiv9581944550MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US">Amen</span></p><p class="ydpd4abf91byiv9581944550MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><span lang="EN-US">When I forget that the whole world<br>is holy, even the tiny dark bugs<br>that slip through window screens<br>and flock and stick to kitchen lights,<br>even the charred black remains of forest,<br>even the river as it floods bright red,<br>even when my cheeks are tear-stained<br>and my body tightens with fear,<br>that is when a kind letter from a stranger<br>arrives in the mail, or the rabbit will stand<br>on his back legs to nibble on mint,<br>or the meadow will blaze with the day’s<br>last slant of sunlight and my heart opens<br>so wide that inside the <i>fear rises praise.</i></span></p><p class="ydpd4abf91byiv9581944550MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer</span></p></div></div></body></html>