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I will keep Broken things: The big clay Pot
How can Humanity look the deer in the face? How can I,
Word reaches us that you are sleeping, sleeping. Dismayed we have turned to the sea. We encounter among others
When they torture your mother plant a tree When they torture your father plant a tree When they torture your brother
When the people have won a victory whether small or large do you ever wonder
To change the world enough you must cease to be afraid of the poor. We experience your fear as the lea… humiliations; in the past
With your unknown to me Odd magic You came To me:
You confide in me that you are lonely,
I have a friend who is turning gray, not just her hair, and I do not know why this is so.
When you see water in a stream you say: oh, this is stream water; When you see water in the river you say: oh, this is water
If my sorrow were deeper I’d be, along with you, under the ocean’s floor; but today I learn that the oil that pools beneath the ocean floor
When you thought me poor, my poverty was shaming. When blackness was unwelcome we found it best that I stay home.
My brothers knew The things you know. I did not scorn learning them; It’s just my mind
As if I’ve swallowed A watermelon And Sidestepping My digestive tract
Knowing you might some day come and how unprepared I’ve always been like Mr. Sloppy in Charles Dickens’