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In Two by Four
“hush”,
says the nothing
he, nothing
everyone, nothing
nothing is nothing, yet
everyone
and nothingness divides.
“I wait”
says the girl
girl two? Or girl four?
Hands may not divide
Those too many a head
to count
No braids, no crown of broken jewels…
but waiting feet.
Girl four, or girl five?
“Go,”
Says I,
And I, with my shoe
And glove bring back
Two tall tales
One with the rat, the rogue and the railing
The other with my fist that moves the sky
“no, stop”
says the nothing
but nothing makes nothing
with her fingertips of gold,
solid stone, and molted road?
“life?”
asks the girl
“no”
says I
“journey, journey”
the journeys that walk two lives,
or three? Or four?
Too many to count,
the nothing tells me –
no . . .
whispers in her blind-held
faith loving truth
“not I, not I”
she repeats back to me
so I, with my iron crown
and the letter that I never wrote
hold in two precious hands
one
small
wing
not found in the left
pocket of my mother’s jewelry box
but in the widening hollow of my
heart
“it does not fly”
nothing cries
“try, try”
says I
but she, with her
sandstone dress
and the monster that
lurks beneath her spindly hair
reaches out
and crushes the wing
in her spiderweb hands
“Not I,”
she repeats
“Not I”
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A poem about a fight between three separate minds.