Instructions for Asking

Do not ask from inside
the mouth of your pain.
Instead, go
wandering in forests,
become radiantly pregnant
with love.
Sink to the earth,
liquored up on beauty
and gratitude.
Only then,
open sweet holy lips
in prayer and recitation.
This is how you
encode the universe
with your desires,
which wing their way
to you at great speed.

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