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Letter to God from Florida

May 23, 2017 Dina Friedman

 

Letter to God from Florida

Thank you for allowing me to see the crab scuttling to the ocean’s edge;
for creating edges and the concept of edgy; for the happy magenta hue

of the F train, and the people on the platform playing Angry Birds.
Thank you for pelicans and the electronic New York Times,

antidote to the neighbors’ newsprint flapping in our faces. Thank you for pouches;
for speedos, bikinis baring our skin to the balmy air;

for atheism, and words without the letter “e,” and for Scrabble,
especially the “z”; for orchestras and rabbits,

but next time get the brass in tune, for the moon
goddess’s dictate to kow-tow; thanks a lot for our daily chow; for alligators,

and those microscopic nits I picked for days
out of my daughter’s hair. Seriously,

thank you for the concept of infinity;
and this nitty vacation sand, shifting hot

as I dig my elbows down, raise my sacred torso,
stand to face the foam.

 

 

 

 

 

"Beach with Aloe" Image submitted by Dina Friedman

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About Dina Friedman

D. Dina Friedman has published widely in literary journals (including Calyx, The Sun, Lilith, Bloodroot, Inkwell, Pacific Poetry and Fiction Review, Anderbo, Mount Hope, Rhino). Recent work has appeared (or about to appear) in The Kentucky Review, New Plains Review, JJournal, The Lake, San Pedro River Review, and Common Ground Review. She has received two Pushcart Prize nominations for poetry and fiction and also published two young adult novels, Escaping Into the Night and Playing Dad’s Song. Dina has an MFA from Lesley University and teaches at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. Visit her website at www.ddinafriedman.com.

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