We’ll say unbelievable things to each other in the early morning—
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Lesson
For beginning metaphysicists and people of color
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Mother named us after birds— Dove, Starling, Sparrow, Wren— to keep together. “
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We trust. I try to know better, to know history from fiction, science from sanctity, yet, what to believe when one night, alone at the bus stop, I see the stubs of our faith skitter about me? How long to pause before opening the barn door?
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a lie I told & here the lie untell.
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Once, I held Time, not it me.
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In Korea, a girl with a single long braid meant something (unwed).
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Home, you imagine, goes on forgetting you.
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I stood and let her rake me as she wanted, with her scour, her gruff. I stood and let her have that much of me.
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We like to make ourselves known—the scraps of us, the trash of us. Don’t let go these pieces. We are not yet sure what they are for.
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