“Use It in Our Daily Lives” by Lara Niedermeyer
- Cecelia Proffit
- Jun 25
- 1 min read
As if it could take place on a cloud,
a marbled square of pre-existence—
could I be sanctified by
hope alone, while made of
only thought and ether.
This is not progression though:
we must be earth and bone,
creation and repetitive motion, as if
the architecture of musculature
could be made another way.
There is no refiner’s picnic—no,
it is fire and flood and
the way a needle feels in
flesh and fabric, the grief as if
a wrecking ball inside my chest.
As if—but there is no divinity
proofed without vocal cords,
of baking and breaking bread,
the hot and physical furnace
of dross consumption.
As if we could live in a celestial
world of gray: but we must know
what we are saying no (and yes) to.
By all that is holy, to live
I have to take the long way.
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