Shortly Before I Return to Earth I Converse…

[Mahdi Meshkatee]

Hey Rebecca,

It's as if you're sitting on the shore, each stanza a wave, each first line a recognition of its coming to you, and I can imagine you opening your arms to the eventual arrival of each as it they give you life and the water recedes.

Best,

Mahdi

[Rebecca Cook]

Mahdi! You gave me a poem for a poem!! Honored.

[School of Blue]

'... make me fluid like the water

encasing my secret body

hurtling toward Earth

inside a padlocked star.' -

All this just in one stanza, bedazzles, Rebecca. In the cosmos we are gorgeous as on earth. Love this.

I am away on a hiatus and will dip back in, popping up near a river in France in due course.

[Rebecca Cook]

I will be watching for your return.

[Caroline Mellor]

Thanks for the cosmic interlude! You write beautifully, Rebecca.

[Rebecca Cook]

Thanks so much, Caroline.

[Lonely Robot Theme]

How gorgeous 💕💕💕

[Rebecca Cook]

Thank you.

[Lonely Robot Theme]

You’re so welcome! Thank you also 🖤

[Rea de Miranda]

Ethereal longings. Gorgeous, Rebecca.

[Rebecca Cook]

Thank you SO much.

[Jennifer Wagner]

Oh, this made me smile! Well done!

[Rebecca Cook]

Thanks, Jennifer. So much. I love to make people smile. And wouldn't it be amazing to come back as a donut?

[David Kirkby]

Well, Rebecca, it worked - obviously!

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[Rebecca Cook]

Ha! You are always far too kind. (but I love it)