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Alana Sorensen:   I was enjoying your new book While Standing in Line for Death , and was wondering why there are 27 poems in that first set.   It occurred to me because you did a tarot reading for me last night that you called “the 27-card reading.”   What’s up with you and this number? CAConrad:   Those poems come from a ritual that cured me of depression I had since my boyfriend Earth was murdered.   That sentence still feels strange to me no matter how many times I say it, mostly because I cannot believe that I am allowed to feel happy again.   But it is an important number, and not just for me. AS:   What do you mean?   Important? CA:   In Sanskrit 27 is a harshad number, which literally means “joy giver.”   There are 27 bones in the human hand.   The hand conducts so much of what we do as a species to give and receive, to build our homes and build the world.   There are 27 channels of communication with God in the Kabbalah and 27 percent of our planet’s surface is