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kindergarten
the teacher tells me he must learn to color between lines & flip his 9s in the right direction so they look less like Ps; the same with 3s and Es. I know these must march in precision to eliminate...
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the rainbow girl
she is named for the breath of God that animated Adam but she is more than breath she is breath within a body her beauty a fusion of 3 continents: African eyes, Native American cheekbones, European...
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ze ze ze zikumi za
zoe sings a kenyan folk song: ze ze ze zikumi za but she doesn’t know the spelling, or what the words mean; just loves the z’s in swahili echoing her name and tells me in soccer she scored a goal for...
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the dance
lipsticked she slow-danced tonight with two boys & I remember that magic on the edge of 13 when something in the center of the chest buds & begins to open she asked me tonight if I still like...
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the girl who said she broke her imagination
children speak poetry before they know words for it, like the time my daughter said she was running bumped her head and broke her imagination I kissed the bones keeping that magic where her curls are...
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Maternity
So much we call memory is us rewriting ourselves as the center of a story, when perhaps we were peripheral to something bigger unfolding just beneath our own skins, and unknown. In this story I am both...
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other mothers
Other mothers might not drive their sons to school in striped sleep pants– patterned neon tiger legs far from camouflage unfit for stalking; smoking, snarling and showing teeth to the radio, muttering...
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