Calling It Down by Cassie Premo Steele (Appeared in the January 2010 Issue) Call down an ending to all this: the motors whirring, engines running, alarms beeping, trucks squealing, chains sawing, fires igniting, claws digging, everywhere earth ripping. Bring every bare hand to the ground again and again until there is an enormous hole to pile all the machines in. Let them crunch and grind and sing a death song as they go in. Cover them with silent earth. Say no prayers. Say no thing. Hold your breath if you can. Listen. Hear the silence filling up the world again.
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