✨ Or Did You Think Crushed Hopes Couldn’t Reawaken?

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Or Did You Think Crushed Hopes Couldn’t Reawaken?

Imagine a feathered blown-glass
               sculpture falling from its pedestal,
                              its opalescent fragments
               scintillating a thousand suns.
                                             Imagine deft fingers placing
               tesserae after tesserae
                              stretching an unending mosaic
               breathing with renewed hopes
under fingertips’ beating pulse
               as though these fingers
                              recomposed shredded documents
into different new meanings.
               Imagine how the firebird
                              emerges spiraling, ruffling
               its feathers, follow
the undulating neck, wings ready
               to pulsate within restricted space,
                              its spirit throbbing, about to soar. 

—Hedy Habra

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From Or Did You Ever See The Other Side?, Press 53, LLC, Copyright © 2023. Used by permission of Hedy Habra. Photo by Alexandre Debiève, Creative Commons, via Unsplash.