How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) Behold your body as water and mineral worth, the selfsame water that soon (from a tree’s way of thinking, soon) will be lifted through the elevator hearts of a forest, returned to the sun in a leaf-eyed gaze. And the rest! All wordless leavings, the perfect bonewhite ash of you: light as snowflakes, falling on updrafts toward the unbodied breath of a bird. Behold your elements reassembled as pieces of sky, ascending without regret, for you’ve been lucky enough. Fallen for the last time into a slump, the wrong crowd, love. You’ve made the best deal. You
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