Dropping Miracles
as waves of purple rivered my mind
I discovered that my role in the sky
was not to hover nor witness but to
drop
miracles
grasping them from the milky way
severing them from my heart chambers
(I also discovered I had a surplus within)
drop
miracles
into bodies below me collected in the
hospital, bodies needing a miracle to
die, bodies needing a miracle to live
drop
miracles
from the stars, from my heart into
the suffering, into the mourners
into the nurses, doctors, cleaners
drop
miracles
into every body
whether it
knows it
needs it
or not
VANESSA SHIELDS 