November 2, 2020
I have been waiting for a morning like this, as these poems have been cooking for awhile.
I may or may not have gotten right the following interpretation. But I suppose I have a theme going on here, through these three poems today.
Photograph of a Female Refugee
“They are suffering but also dreaming.”
Mihaela Noroc, Atlas of Beauty
Sometimes the dream
is not so much about relief –
Nietzsche’s definition of happiness –
but about creation,
formulation of what might come next
when God won’t do for me
what I can do for myself
because I have his strength
coupled with my own drive —
despite a crumpled heart,
a birthright seized and
dirt from too many journeys
ground into the hem of my clothes.
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