Thirty-One Days                                       day vi                                                       Tittle Page


It is a difficult thing to do,
to reach for the sun
with hands unfolded,
grasping, catching, and retrieving
the humid air of life.
Avoiding death's pain,
gathering into the anvils of storm clouds
forming searing droplets of rain
that burn a stigmata one the insane

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