NOVELIST & Poet LAURIE PEREZ
“This day a new idea emerges from the ancient clarity that made you.
This day the wide opening road is truly who you are and always have been.
Call it in. That thing you need. There is no asking now. You were born inside the answer that preceded every question.
Surprises swoon to see you coming together, fragments connecting dots and atoms, easily inviting tools that fund enlightenment.
Dream well awake and rest busy, the way your cells align in synchronicity, complying with existence that is remade daily like fresh bread, night flowers blooming, a crop of mint and fields of stars circling Orion.
Jupiter and Venus lured your attention so it caught you: green strike of match against luminous twilight — see how it lasts longer than you expected and how it came rushing to delight you — completely out of nowhere it was there: a flash of quiet brilliance and you could not miss it because you were right on time, ready to receive it the way a prayer bowl gathers more divinity when empty.”
Laurie Perez, Prayer Bowl Catches a Random Shooting Star at Dusk, 10.25.25
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BA Arizona State University
MS Pacific College of Health & Science
UC Irvine Fiction
UCLA Flash Fiction
Recipient Creative Writing Fellowship - Fiction, Arizona Commission on the Arts
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