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All Images and Text Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Michele Marie Summerlin Shimchock. All rights reserved. I know a lawyer who will eat your face off if you use any of my stuff without prior written permission from me. Thank you.
"It would have to shine. And burn. And be / a sign of something infinite and turn things and people nearby into their wilder selves / and be dangerous to the ordinary nature of signs and glow like a tiny hole in space / to which a god presses his eye and stares. Or her eye. Some divine impossible stretch / of the imagination where you and I are one."
An excerpt from "Something New under the Sun" from Steve Scafidi's Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer
"I've got a lot of learning to do," she said with a half-chuckle and flippant toss of her hair, but the deep lines in her face told me that, maybe, just maybe, she had already learned enough for the both of us.
