Love love love these luminous opening lines

I could teach you to fold a paper star*
That opens like magic 
with the tug of a bead
that’s attached to a silken-spun cord of
well-wishes and the exquisite light
of a friend who celebrates 
us — just, as we are
Unfolding Paper Star
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Jenine Bsharah Baines
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May 20, 2024
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Love love love these luminous opening lines
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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