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  My Heart Is Stretching   And Yesterday, I felt my it stretch the long way -- base to apex -- and likened it to an Arbor             vitae.   Elon-                         gated, I saw a tall thin oak and I didn’t know what I was looking at at first.   Noon, so no shadow.   Turns out they call it                         a Columnar English Oak. Or toward Linnaeus: Quercus robur Fastigita Rooted in the, if you’re facing it and the mountain’s in front of you too, the northwest corner of the community garden.   How drawn, which is to say how stretched toward or simply just growing into          ...

 Adoro te devote     detail: andromeda daniel chester french                                                                                                                                   Setting: maternity ward Mother: in labor nearing 40 hours Father: in the wings Director/Pediatrician:   Baby: boy yet             to arrive     Because the truth is we invent a life for them our children where we are a part of them right a part of their lives? where we are assigned some defining role to star to manage – the script is written the stage has its backdrop...