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BHAKTI - Magdalena Ball (Australia)



BHAKTI

 

-         Magdalena Ball (Australia)

 

Devotion

          cannot be bound

         

          parcelled out

                   as absolution.

 

yellow wattles flowering

          an offering, puja

 

          leaning in

                   astringent air.

         

          Everything changes.

                   A childhood home

         

                   a body broken into its

                             constituents.

         

                   We’re all equal

          in the end.

 

                   these beautiful, needy

                             wacky lives

         

          you built into your own

                   shrine, petals

 

          branching in formation

                   from zero, equal to the sum

         

                   of the preceding

                             two numbers, a spiral

                  

                   distribution of seeds

          ashes and need.

 

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