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NEAR THE REPUTED SITE of the Garden of Eden, an international team of environmental engineers, sewage treatment experts, and others are restoring historic marshlands in what has become a desert wasteland. They are creating a new Eden-not simply a public works project that will filter wastewater for the Ahwar region in southern Iraq, but also…

I let them choose the rock from which the water would flow.

Called across, calling;
With a receptor there.

Just like you go looking for the rainbow.

What I have decided, at least for now, is that I’m not afraid of the struggle. Jacob’s struggle with the man (or angel?) is my struggle. I’m not letting go. I’m holding on for the blessing. Blessing

Isle of femur. Of scapular curl. Isle of skull.

It’s hard not to see
everything these days as prophecy, hard
not to hear a rooster crow and not wonder
how many betrayals are underway.

Anna was an atheist until one month ago. Now she wants to become a nun.

Starve, he said,
attraction’s fever, fill your mouth with prayer
instead.