Crying Out for a Dream

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the Chinese character for
the word crisis
is a combination of two Hanzi symbols
danger
and
opportunity

the Italian root of
the word disaster
is constellation turmoil
stars imploding
and
exploding

the great plains Lakota
word for
vision quest is
hembleciya
crying out for
a dream

when my children
leave the house
I remind them
safety third
life is built in what comes first
and second

and sometimes
in the footnotes and margins
danger definitions and
distractions
the vision quest
beyond the map