Zócalo Public SquarePostcard – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Postcard https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2022/01/28/ananda-lima/chronicles/poetry/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2022/01/28/ananda-lima/chronicles/poetry/#respond Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:01:52 +0000 by Ananda Lima https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=124993 you speak to a mountain
by becoming
it your body in her
language of minerals
a whisper a humming
bird’s fluttering wings
since I became
a mother nearly a decade
ago my body
smells like milk
women tend
to live longer but I
selfish as I can be
wish never to be
without you
in the language
of mountains
heavy water
and debris
say The Grand
Canyon I am
happy now
now just another
place from here
I can send you this
whenever you are
as easily as a love
letter a postcard
without
a return address

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]]> you speak to a mountain
by becoming
it your body in her
language of minerals
a whisper a humming
bird’s fluttering wings
since I became
a mother nearly a decade
ago my body
smells like milk
women tend
to live longer but I
selfish as I can be
wish never to be
without you
in the language
of mountains
heavy water
and debris
say The Grand
Canyon I am
happy now
now just another
place from here
I can send you this
whenever you are
as easily as a love
letter a postcard
without
a return address

The post Postcard appeared first on Zócalo Public Square.

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