Commonplace miracle: that so many commonplace miracles take place.
The usual miracle: invisible dogs barking in the dead of night.
One of many miracles: a small and airy cloud is able to upstage the massive moon.
Several miracles in one: an alder is reflected in the water and is reversed from left to right and grows from crown to root and never hits bottom though the water isn’t deep.
A run-of-the-mill miracle: winds mild to moderate turning gusty in storms.
A miracle in the first place: cows will be cows.
Next but not least: just this cherry orchard from just this cherry pit.
A miracle minus top hat and tails: fluttering white doves.
A miracle (what else can you call it): the sun rose today at three fourteen A.M. and will set tonight at one past eight.
A miracle that’s lost on us: the hand actually has fewer than six fingers but still it’s got more than four.
A miracle, just take a look around: the inescapable earth.
An extra miracle, extra and ordinary: the unthinkable can be thought.
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"This element of Kurdish delights me: to crack a word open and peer inside it, to find a world within a word, a world where the abstract is embodied. The Kurdish language calls the body into every conversation, fashioning idea from body. There is no hiding the body, not even to protect it."
