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I would like to live life endlessly
even if flat on my belly
firefly through the glowing flowers, red and hot
I convert my body
skipping in the grass
breaking a moth in a piano.
Fantastic. All of it. Forever.
And what Mama said, about love and murder, I’m starting to see how right she is, how close “fan” is to “fanatic.”

Text by Jordan Scott. Prompt: 1933 – A 12-year-old girl experiences the first Marian apparition of Our Lady of Banneux in Banneux, Belgium.

Text by Christof Migone. Prompts: texts by Jordan and Kathryn plus the prompts they chose.

Text by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer. Prompt: 1976 – Gerald Ford’s would-be assassin, Sara Jane Moore, is sentenced to life in prison.

Todays Calls is part of the Phone Works series by Christof Migone. Website design by Endless Commons. Thanks to the Ontario Arts Council.