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Humble Up
Mary McGinnis


How I was wanting to be the star in my office
until a therapist called me on that star stuff, I didn’t see it.
Undone, I wanted to break the
piñata and find inside

how much I didn’t know. I slid into
uncharted territory the day I thought there
might be a god. The template of what I thought the world was
blew away and left me breathless.

Unexpectedly the world was totally different. I wept with joy and
pain, hardly finding words to explain.

What could this invisible love be?



Mary McGinnis has been writing and living in New Mexico since 1972 where life has connected her with emptiness, desert, and mountains. Despite having the difficulty of blindness, she had a counseling and advocacy career for 40 years. During that time, she kept writing, no matter what. In addition to appearing in many publications, she has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, and she has three full-length collections:
Listening for Cactus, October Again, and See with Your Whole Body, and one chap book: Breath of Willow.

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