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Humble Up
Mary McGinnis

How I was wanting to be the star in my office
until a therapist called me on that star stuff, I didn’t see it.
Undone, I wanted to break the
piñata and find inside

how much I didn’t know. I slid into
uncharted territory the day I thought there
might be a god. The template of what I thought the world was
blew away and left me breathless.

Unexpectedly the world was totally different. I wept with joy and
pain, hardly finding words to explain.

What could this invisible love be?

—
Mary McGinnis has been writing and living in New Mexico since 1972 where life has connected her with emptiness, desert, and mountains. Despite having the difficulty of blindness, she had a counseling and advocacy career for 40 years. During that time, she kept writing, no matter what. In addition to appearing in many publications, she has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, and she has three full-length collections: Listening for Cactus, October Again, and See with Your Whole Body, and one chap book: Breath of Willow.

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