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Alive
if i listen
if i listen
my eyes want to name
my eyes want to contain
if i listen stretch out
listening reaches beyond
listening
i breathe in yah
i breathe out wey
i listen to the resonance,
each breath is the first
we draw in life yah
we release into being wey
some call it God
© Sharon Lopez Mooney, "Language of the sea", originally published in Ginosko Literary Journal, Spring Issue #28, Ed. Robert Paul Cesaretti, Fairfax, CA, Spring 2022, print & online
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