GRANDCHILD NUMBER THREE Truth lifts the heart like water refreshes thirst. (Rumi)
Black and white image a face an arm within a blurred arc a girl her parents with their big blue eyes envision bright blue charm progressing within that growing face
Grandma decides she’ll be a blonde like Mommy with her keen insight earn an MBA like Daddy or perhaps discover a cure for disease challenge the world of sports
but truth appears on the film a flaw or so it would seem the twenty-first chromosome triples instead of doubles one surgery promised at birth a second four months later
the first will strike her gut the second her heart Baby’s body develops within Mommy as Baby’s outside world grasps truth embraces it small hands double jointed blue eyes maybe that seek observe belong to a spirit as sacred as any in a world dubbed normal
as Baby’s parents and grandparents and friends open their own guts allowing no room for anything less than wonder and it arrives within her spirit
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