You deserve a perfect star with one perfect seed. You deserve pods slyly open, an embroidered star with eight radiating points. You deserve a weathered husk, bark hard and mottled brown. You deserve a gnarled star in the palm of your hand, a star with creased pockets holding tired tears and a smooth star to loosen worry. You deserve a star of pointed shoes for every direction, a rasping star for staying home. You deserve a star for being worn down and holding tight, for being your own magi and the wisdom of figuring it out. You deserve a perfect fallen star, the glow gone, the wonder almost burned away, the aura shrunk. You deserve the star that pulls you in, makes you squint and hunch over. The one with a scent of play and true reckoning.
Bring your stars down to earth. Wish on every one: Eight-pointed arachnid stars; Chrome hubcap stars; Soldered circuit board stars; Laced-up grommet stars; Licorice stars; Polished fork stars; Straight pin stars; Seed pod stars. Are you wishing? Are you matching your wish to the right star? A stop sign star grants one quarter minute of inhale and release. A shopping cart star gives a half aisle of gliding back to silly. A zipper star, well, that’s just up and down fulfillment. A fountain pen star helps you splash it out. And a garden hose star hears every wish for starting over. A whisper star in the ear transports you, and the slipper star makes your safest wish come true.
Happy New Year with more gratitude than there are stars!
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