here

Abstract

here here where the spirits lay but never rest their tongues dry as rust, untamed thirst a bottomless belly vengeful and scorned woven to those lost at shore those the land yawned and stretched for, always slightly out of reach here the bayou. the lake. the river bend. in the neck of earth. at the seams and sea our bodies braided and tethered. mangled, and strewn, stolen and stranded, here. in the houses our mothers built, in the waters of their names, we bathe, wade and wail our tears licked and counted. the salt of their sweat the pain a tomb, the suffering a cross, too bloody a burden to bear the price. a debt beyond what one can pay.