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 Go...