A New Faith - A New Faith (the first two paragraphs) by Liliana Blum

The fresh morning air frees all objects from their own weight. Peaches, oranges, apples, and figs float upward from the branches of the trees and the mossy ground. A flock of owls comes and takes you to forbidden places. Their wings cast a shadow across your mind while you stand among the fruits and those birds with their catlike eyes. You fly over the vine-draped wall, leaving the garden and your beliefs behind. You find yourself naked, inevitably naked, without your dark habit and without shame. In your mind there is only the murmer of fluttering wings—and a peculiar pleasure. The owls caress you, hide among your breasts and legs. . .

A bell tolls in the distance and the owls fly away clumsily. It’s the time of the day when everything begins. You smell your damp fingers and you recognize what’s inside you: this is you. When you were a little girl, they told you there was a soul inside a person. You wonder if you have pieces of your soul smeared between your fingers.

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