![]() ![]() It doesn’t need intention or a beautiful moment (it would be incredible even read in a dirty bathroom stall at the world’s worse airport), but it deserves the reader’s intention, slowness, focus. ![]() Aside from finding myself valuing these moments during a pandemic and worldwide pain, this is a book that deserves intention in its reading-though I believe that about most books. When I decided to read it again, I knew I needed to make it another beautiful moment. The sunlight and the silence and the animals nearby created a perfect atmosphere for reading these poems (the only detractor was a distant weed-whacker, and even that brought contrast to the poems). My pets were audience to the lines I couldn’t help but read aloud. It was not yet 8 am and the dog, cat, and I sat on the couch and I read the book cover to cover, pausing only 3 times. My husband had taken the children on a bike ride, to donuts. ![]() The first time I read Bonfire Opera by Danusha Laméris, my house was, for the first time in months, blissfully silent. ![]()
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