
They cannot imagine you as God
You are too brown
Too wild
Wound too deep
Blood of the land
Braid your hair back into constellations
The Breadcrumbs will only be eaten by the buzzards
And we might lose our way
The stars stay longer
And
It is easier to find yourself in the reflected fragments that light the sky
Than it is crawling on hand and knee
Samar Johnson, Lexington