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Between us, there are one hundred one
umber haints in our home.
In bed, we discuss
our future, our children woven in myrrh, sitting
in some tomorrow, waiting for us to join & give them our science
so they can live.
...
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By Elizabeth Willis
What direction does your sentence move: you belonging to the land or the land belonging to you.This ...
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By Gwendolyn Brooks
1(deep summer)By all things planetary, sweet, I swearThose hands may not possess these hands againUntil...
Poem
By Gwendolyn Brooks
One wants a Teller in a time like this.
One’s not a man, one’s not a woman grown,
To bear enormous business all alone.
One cannot walk this winding street with pride,
Straight-shouldered, tranquil-eyed,
Knowing one knows for sure the way back home.
One wonders if one has a home...
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