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An Election Reflection, Part II: On Patriotism in 2021
I watch the inauguration live on TV in my school library. The clouds literally parted in DC right when Lady Gaga started singing. I felt my heart pounding along with the beat of the "President's own Marine Corps band". -
My Forever Tree
A dogwood tree grows in my front garden. It is small, somewhat peaked, somewhat scrawny. It's imperfect. That tree has watched me grow up. -
The horseman
The horseman rides.
He rides through valleys of smoke and hills of shadow.
He rides through empty cities of gray concrete and twisted metal. -
The Secret
I am holding a secret in my mouth
It is cold and hard and round and tastes of snow and iron fences.
It is smooth and bitter
It is a key and it locks me in
It is loneliness
It is a white canvas on gray museum walls -
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