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      November 3, 2014Mark Smith-SotoSatori

      In the budding white morning I crawl
      out of bed and wander barefoot down
      the stairs and yawn into the kitchen
      where you’re making coffee, and I
      see a woman making coffee and wearing
      what must be my red shirt, and I watch
      her move sternly as if I shouldn’t be there,
       
      or as if I should be remembering to be polite,
      because truth is I’m just then getting
      my bearings, wondering why everything
      shines so clear, the rhombus of sun
      on the oak table, the copper fan stuttering
      overhead, and I watch as she walks
      to the fridge and pulls and disappears
       
      behind the door, disappears except
      for the red sleeve I almost recognize,
      and the curled fingers on the handle
      that I know I must now go up and touch,
      and it comes to me then that I have
      wandered in my life from dream to dream,
      with a lotus of awakening about to open.

      from #43 - Spring 2014

      Mark Smith-Soto

      “Growing up in Costa Rica, I began to love poetry listening to family members recite the work of Alfonsina Storni and Rubén Darío around the dinner table. I didn’t always understand the verses, but they sounded beautiful to me, and I knew that someday I would want to write some of my own.”