her subject: our motherland

inspired by a haiku by my viet homegirl from la, i wrote this:
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motherland



All I ask

is that the sea

is not a maddening expanse

isolating depths      creatures

I will never connect with

But an ocean of particles

I am made of      Possibility

Sun-glinting movement

Blues reflecting      light

from the sky