Mis-

It’s impossible to feed you when I can’t find
your mouth, an inconvenience when you levitate
or pass through walls. How to coax a whale on the beach 
back into water. How to rescue a jellyfish
without becoming one.
Forget what you learned in school 
about silence and standing still, about
how a cricket is just a cockroach that sings.
When you discover the true source of your power, 
you might be underwhelmed.
At the sight of bronze shoes, why weep?
The grief and loss meetups were never canceled 
due to a lack of victims.
When you can’t leave the house, 
call Alexa, a woman with a machine
inside, or a machine with a woman inside, 
I can’t remember which.
She’ll never say, “It takes one to know one,” 
so I guess that means we’re still human.
If you ask, she’ll tell you that recovery 
is a kind of motherhood
where you are your own infant, your 
birth a mere deliverance

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