"Restrictions" by Tyrel Kessinger

Restrictions

After the surgery I was told I couldn’t lift my daughters for at least a month.

Small price, some said, waving away this terminal subtraction from the

ever collapsing finite.

For comparison: why not ask the trees not to drink the sun the sun

not to surrender to the moon the moon

not to quilt the night the night

not to darken the river the river

not to glass the stones the stones

not to sink, not so completely.

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Tyrel Kessinger is a stay-at-home dad of two wild animal-like things. His work can be found here and there, with more forthcoming from Washington Square Review, Crab Creek Review, and Wilderness House. To read all his many viral tweets, look no further than @KessingerTyrel.

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