A Prayer for August

A Prayer for August
Inspired by my queen Sei Shonagon
 
A prayer for pleasure today
A prayer to resist checking spam to see if there’s a hidden message for me, the email from a mystery someone who will fix it
A prayer for sun tea today
A prayer to be honest with oneself, to see the way one is out of honesty and out of time
A prayer no one comes here today
A prayer to stay
A prayer to reset
A prayer for voice
A prayer to have not the thing that one doesn’t have and not to appreciate that which one does have but instead to enjoy this pop song version of irony
A prayer to stop optimizing to be less optimal more creeping more undone
A prayer for rawness and tenderness and for the membrane and tissue to be met and held
A prayer for longer mornings
A prayer for the bugs I’ve killed and apologized to while squashing but that I killed anyway
A prayer for the girl in the picture with the longing in her eyes that this is it, that this is the end of history
A prayer to resist disgust toward her
A prayer to stop being embarrassed
A prayer for the interns
A prayer for clichés that are true: youth is wasted on the young; variety is the spice of life
A prayer to strip restlessness of meaning and apology
A prayer for dumb birthdays
A prayer for August
A prayer for the marital bathroom
A prayer for clogged pores and website updates and simple problems that require outside counsel
A prayer for dead pens
A prayer for half measures, for the beach days and CoolSculpting and date nights
A prayer for still doing what’s possible
A prayer for good lighting
A prayer for the walk to a place one didn’t want to go
A prayer for the pee spots on the rug
A prayer for sisters
A prayer for lantern vision
A prayer for when one wakes up too early
A prayer for confusing interactions with strangers
A prayer to fast
A prayer to purge
A prayer for the antidote
A prayer for what is
 
What are you praying for this August?