A lint cloud billows
and glints like clean linen
in the backdoor draft.
Flung in a circle
on the filthy welcome mat
outgrown shoes pray
next to a red bowl
of wet Hot Wheels
that rattle for Your blessing.
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Maggie Frank-Hsu is a writer and editor who self-published her first nonfiction book, Be About Something, in 2020. Her writing has also appeared in Pidgeonholes, Publishers Weekly, and Quarter(ly), and in her own weekly e-letter on writing.