Before We Had Skin
Queen willow
if I could braid
your ermine tresses,
would you shape me
into willing?
Would you teach me
the secrets only
nesting birds know --
so that I might abide
with the initiated?
Those who understand
the beautiful reckoning
of a mountain face.
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Martha T. Terrell
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