When the unimaginable

comes to pass

When the unexpected

enters like a spear

my bird heart flesh

When the wave crashes

onto the rock wall

over and over

only to fall back on itself

Each morning

I make of my palms a bowl

to receive the warm water

plashing from the faucet

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Margaret Cliggett lives in New York’s Hudson River Valley. She has Masters Degrees in Theater and Counseling, and works as a trauma-focused, body-centered psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher. She read her poem “Two Annes,” an elegy for her mother, Anne Cassidy and the poet Anne Sexton, at Hudson Valley’s SpokenWord performance in Kingston, NY on New Year's Day 2020. This is her second “World” poem. Her first was part of Poetic License, a collaboration of painters and poets in the Arts Society of Kingston’s June 2020 exhibition. She is curious about many worlds.