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Thus an abbreviation
to birth, names

of places with a strong claim
on the individual.

The spoken world beneath an acacia tree
celebrates a deed

inscribed in the collective memory of the people
to whom I belong:

historical record created over centuries,
or expressions of poetry in the independence of adults.

In a glass cabinet stood
a metal can of boiling water.

“I am at one with my community.”

 

n e x t

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The very first image encountered is “soared above her house.” History is permeating, rampant displacement at all times of heart. I believe he does not know he is a bird.

 

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