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The Big Hollow

Poetry Off the Shelf

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Gabriel Isn't Coming for You

Pilgrim bell's poem orbits the precipitating miracle of islam, which was literacy being given to the prophet. The angel gabriel squeezed away what was empty in him that the prophet could be filled with miracle. Imagine the vast cavities you have spent your life trying to fill with fathers, mothers, lovers, language, drugs, money, art trays and imagine them gone. What's left, whatever you aren't, makes you a house useful not because it's floor boards or ceilings or walls, but because the empty space between them. If he did, would you call him gebrie or gabriel, like you are here? Who is this even for one

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