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The rain didn’t stop, so they danced. Their clothes stuck to their skin, laughter louder than thunder. Joy doesn’t wait for clear skies.
By a cracked stone, a tortoise blinked without surprise It had seen more seasons than most trees Slowness isn’t lack—it’s wisdom carved into pace
Against the molten lungs of desert rattles wind, bones bright with dust. It gnaws dunes into scars stitched with grit, and I chew its vowels until my tongue splits bright with salt, learning grace burns first where thirst skins prayer raw.
Branches inked barbed hieroglyphs against a parchment sky, their black quills scratching hymns dusk couldn’t erase. I stared up, parsing their feral script, and thought: literacy was always a lie—we’ve been fluent in awe since birth, syllables steeped in leaf and limb, conjugating wonder long before language loomed.