Trepidatious Welcome (aka Baring Gifts)
History prepares me
To welcome the Monster at my gate
To treat him kindly
To not look away
No matter how gruesome
He appears to me
How rudely he barges in
Uninvited and yet
Not totally unexpected
Though I shunned him overwhelmingly
After all, he is no fun
You see
I felt his presence pounding
At my door
His cold breath
Licking up my neck
In this moment
I am steeled
Or so I seem
To greet him
Offer tea
After all
He is my Guru
My Sensei
My Teacher
Glory be
I am here to learn again
Whatever for
This Life has
Given
unto me
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Inspiritu: COVID19.
The classroom is enormous this time around.
BECCA LAVIN is a massage therapist. She is a somewhat mature human consumed with childish glee when surrounded by the arts—visual, tactile, messy, human arts. She is a lover of the written word, the spoken word, the sung word, and small visual delights brought into focus or, purposefully, out. 
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