Once

A Maguire
1 min readOct 16, 2019
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Danced once, through sunlight’s brilliance, through rainbows and bejeweled silken webs, through moon’s cool beams and dappling pewter pockets of light and dark.

Ran once, with fierce intent, boundless strength and unlimited generosity, all welcome, all loved, arms wrapped around a world.

Walked once, to others’ pace, slow and steady, waiting, giving, wanting, bleeding, crying all muffled and silenced in small black spaces…

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A Maguire

Writer, dreamer, developmental editor, book coach, farmer and mother.