01-29-2015, 11:00 AM
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< homeland >
she spoke of her homeland
an archipelago of chocolate islands
in a sweet blue sea
and of how the lips of the sun
would kiss her as she fished
and of the colors
the countless colors between sky and bone
and how she'd watch
as the night
hid them away
and of her sister and the tortoise
and her mother's stories
that sometimes stretched 'til morning
and of her father lost at sea
and how each year
her mother knew
the very morning
the first albatross would come
and how she'd stare
at the shimmer just above the sea
until it turned to crescent six foot wings
- - -
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions

