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