With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.
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Cherish your wilderness.Maxine Kumin
This dwelt in me who does not know me now, where in her labyrinth I cannot follow, advance to be recognized, displace her terror I hold my heartbeat on my lap and cannot comfort her. Tonight she is condemned to cry out wolf or werewolf, and it echoes in the gulf and no one comes to cradle cold Narcissus the first cell that divided separates us.
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Love, we are a small pond.
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We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.
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It is said to begin with the father.
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I took the lake between my legs.
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