For my sister. Happy New Year, Kat Thomas !
Hooray for
Magic
By Kelly
Grace Thomas
In this
choose your-own-adventure life,
you must
chase magic with breast-pocketed secrets,
hold it close
as a heartbeat.
Bow to
childlike honesty like pelicans in prayer.
Meet the
breath of opportunity like the first days of summer,
saltwater
doilied skin and watermelon soaked thumbs,
lick the
warmth with lazy calico satisfaction.
Life can
always sparkle.
Seek out
glitter in birthday cards, on fingernails
and know that dancing is always appropriate
anytime and anywhere.
If you can’t
hear the music, find another instrument,
and play it
as loud a possible.
Wake the
neighbors.
Do ballerina
twirls in aisles of frozen peas,
make a maple
tree your three-ringed, Big Top.
We were put
on this earth to play,
make setbacks
an obstacle course of sandbox philosophy.
Because
whether you believe it or not,
something
magical is always about to happen.
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