I am a slave to the sounds of
poetry. The rhymes of lovers
pledges, the colors of tanned
songs sing to my imagination.
Poems drape over me like
dresses on women. I see
colors and patterns reach
with tender fingers. Vowels
touch and with moist
lips, rhyme.
But there are no poems
here in Gilead,
no epic washing away of lines
on the waves of the
final
flood.
Jul 29, 2022
Jul 29, 2022 at 11:53 AM UTC
I am a slave to the sounds of
poetry. The rhymes of lovers
pledges, the colors of tanned
songs sing to my imagination.
Poems drape over me like
dresses on women. I see
colors and patterns reach
with tender fingers. Vowels
touch and with moist
lips, rhyme.
But there are no poems
here in Gilead,
no epic washing away of lines
on the waves of the
final
flood.
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