We’ll say unbelievable things to each other in the early morning—
Menna Abu Zahramembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
Lesson
For beginning metaphysicists and people of color
Menna Abu Zahramembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
Mother named us after birds— Dove, Starling, Sparrow, Wren— to keep together. “
Menna Abu Zahramembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
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?
Menna Abu Zahramembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
a lie I told & here the lie untell.
Menna Abu Zahramembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
Once, I held Time, not it me.
Menna Abu Zahramembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
In Korea, a girl with a single long braid meant something (unwed).
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Home, you imagine, goes on forgetting you.
Menna Abu Zahramembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
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.
Menna Abu Zahramembuat kutipan2 tahun yang lalu
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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