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PREORDER: THE BEGINNER's GUIDE TO MINOR GODS AND OTHER SMALL SPIRITS by Kimberly Ramos

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I Think I Would Be Better

as a minnow,

a bullet body glinting

silver, brain a benign bundle of cells

crushed in the corner

of my skull.

The whole world inverted, the sky

an unreachable ocean,

I would flit between two shallow edges

of a muddy pond,

encounter nothing

but hazy shapes and staggered light.

Let me leave

my head, humid and heavy as a giant.

Let me be the length

of my pinky finger, fluorescent

in the late-afternoon sun,

only asked to eat algae, and then

one day be eaten,

a tangle of enzymes in acid.

Only asked to glimmer

for children who venture to the creek,

and twinge, jewel-like,

when they shriek,

oh, look, a minnow.