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Seeking permission to be known
I was reading the poem "Lost" by David Wagoner, which is anchored entirely on the principle of stillness. I do not know the last time I was able to be still, even more so after the pandemic. Waiting "to be found" elicits every form of anxiety that I try to keep buried beneath my threshold of perfectionism.